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This workshop is designed to bring together radical educators working within a variety of institutional and organizational settings. Through panel presentations and participant discussion groups, we will facilitate a dialog on the relationships between educating, organizing, and movement-building, as well as on the obstacles and advantages of “teaching for social justice” within different kinds of educational institutions. Panel presentations will address topics including curriculum development, popular education pedagogy, free schools, and social justice in the college classroom. Following panel presentations, participants will form smaller discussion groups based on shared interests and strategic concerns. Our goal is to create a space for educators to share resources, think strategically, build professional and activist networks, and develop a broader vision for social justice education. From the perspectives of our different types of educational projects, we will grapple with the multiple tensions that emerge from trying to live, work, learn, and organize within and across them. How can we negotiate the tensions between working, on the one hand, with radical movements and popular education projects that traverse the boundaries of the dominant educational institutions and that seek to change those institutions, while, on the other hand, working within those institutions without becoming of them? This workshop will provide a forum for discussing such questions in relation to the particular contexts of our own projects, and for learning from each other’s tactics, strategies, and visions.
