Paulo Freire Business Meeting - Women on Critical Pedagogy: Toward Revolutionary Renewal of Education Research and Practice

Session Type: Business Meeting

Abstract

How important are women to the research, practice, and history of critical pedagogy?
The last decade has seen setbacks in women's rights around the world and rising rates of gender-based violence, especially against black and Latina women, immigrants, and women from historically marginalized groups. These setbacks clash with the determination with which women worldwide have fought throughout the 20th and 21st centuries for a just society for all. These struggles have taken place in multiple spaces: in rural and urban areas, in politics, in culture, in the media, in education, and in science. When we consider that critical pedagogy takes place in all these spaces - which reinforces its transformative potential - we come across the immense relevance of women who, in their praxis, transform hope into a verb in action. The 2025 AERA Meeting theme 'Research, Remedy, and Repair: Toward Just Education Renewal' points out that there is much to remedy and repair in education and in society. We claim that it is not possible to conceive of profound social transformations without women as protagonists.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Paulo Freire

Participants

• Inny Accioly, Universidade Federal Fluminense

• Audrey Dahl, Université du Québec à Montréal

• Sheila L. Macrine, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth

• Ana Lucia Cruz, STLCC - Meramec

• Roseli Fischmann, Universidade de São Paulo

• Tricia M. Kress, Molloy University