At Pedagogy of Resistance, we envision a community of educators dedicated to transforming the entire system of education, starting with their own classrooms. These courageous educators cultivate learning environments that are humanizing, equitable, and liberatory—spaces in which all students are affirmed in their humanity and empowered to exist wholly and to the greatest extent of their human potential.
We recognize that schooling in the United States was founded on principles of exclusion, inequality, and the dehumanization of “Othered” groups. Further, we understand that modern-day structures, policies, and practices in schools continue to reflect the troubling values and belief systems upon which the education system was founded.
As such, there is no neutral education. To exist neutrally within a fundamentally oppressive institution is to perpetuate injustice. We believe that moving toward more just, humanizing, and equitable learning experiences for all requires intentional and active resistance.
This pedagogy of resistance and love is made possible only through critical hope—the understanding that students and educators are active agents of change. Through critical examination of the world and its injustices, students and teachers stand side by side toward collective transformation.
Ultimately, we envision an education system in which teaching and learning serve as vehicles for liberation rather than oppression, where educators and students work collectively toward freedom, justice, and the transformation of society.
Mission and Vision
To this end, Pedagogy of Resistance’s mission is to:
Cultivate a community of educators dedicated to using their teaching practice as a means for directly dismantling the oppressive ideologies and practices that maintain systems of domination in schools.
Create social justice-focused curriculum for K-12 classrooms that centers the voices and experiences of people of color and other marginalized groups in order to arm teachers with the tools they need in order to begin the work of disrupting a system that has served to erase, vilify, and ultimately silence these communities.
We invite educators to stand in solidarity with this community of teachers doing incredible work in our schools to disrupt inequity and advance justice in education.
