Freirean Echoes

Charlotte Achieng-Evensen is a K-12 practitioner and academic. Currently, she serves her school district as a Teacher Specialist focusing on research, policy, program coordination, and instructional coaching. At the university level, Dr. Evensen teaches a variety of courses in teacher education. Her scholarly work is centered in the intersections of Indigenous Philosophies and colonization, culturally responsive methodologies, and K-12 teaching praxis. Kevin Stockbridge is an Assistant Professor and Student Affairs Liaison in the Master of Arts in Teaching program at Chapman University. He is a critical educator and researcher dedicated to a radically inclusive world through engagement of democracy in the classroom and beyond. Kevin has co-edited and co-authored with scholars on several works that seek to advance and reframes transformative educational conversations for the sake of social justice.Suzanne SooHoo is the former Endowed Hassinger Chair in Education and the co-director, emerita of the Paulo Freire Democratic Project at Chapman University, Orange, California. She is one of ten Asian American endowed chairs in the U.S. Her current research interests focuses on critical pedagogy, Freirean philosophy and culturally responsive methodologies. As a former school principal and full professor, she has committed a lifetime to understanding and nurturing relationships and engaging dialogically towards the development of a more humane and socially just world.

• Dedication to Tom WilsonSuzanne SooHooAcknowledgmentsCan Text Be Dialogic? An IntroductionCharlotte Achieng-Evensen, Kevin Stockbridge, and Suzanne SooHooSection OneChapter OneThe Presence of Paulo Freire at Chapman UniversityAna Maria Araújo FreireChapter TwoUntested Feasibility: My Reflection on Paulo and Nita Freire's Hope for UtopiaAnaida Colón-MuñizChapter ThreeUntested Feasibility and the Work of Emancipation in a Social Science ClassroomEdgar OrejelSection One: Questions and ActivitySection TwoChapter FourThe 2RA Method: Paulo Freire's Pedagogy in Formal Classroom SettingsTom WilsonChapter FiveRead, Reflect, Act with Tom WilsonSuzanne SooHooChapter SixStanding on the Shoulders of GiantsGregory WarrenSection Two: Questions and ActivitySection ThreeChapter SevenComrade Jesus, the Dialectic Regained: An Epistolic ManifestoPeter McLarenChapter EightPostdigital GatheringPetar JandrićChapter NineIn Conversation with Peter: Becoming Teachers and Scholars for Social ChangeCharlotte Achieng-Evensen and Kevin StockbridgeSection Three: Questions and ActivitySection FourChapter TenFreire and the Politics of Radical ConsciousnessAntonia DarderChapter ElevenRevolution as Dialectical, Communal Praxis: A Response to Antonia DarderLilia D. MonzóChapter TwelveLiberation Through Love: Things Freire and My Mama Taught MeKimberly A. White-SmithSection Four: Questions and ActivitySection FiveChapter ThirteenRe-Inventing Paulo Freire EthicallyDonaldo MacedoChapter FourteenFreire, Ethics, and Revolutionary Love: A Response to Donaldo Macedo's "Re-Inventing Paulo Freire EthicallyCathery YehChapter FifteenA Journey Toward Coherence: Responding to Donaldo MacedoChristian Alejandro BrachoSection Five: Questions and ActivityAfterword: A Meditative BreathSuzanne SooHoo, Kevin Stockbridge, and Charlotte Achieng-EvensenAbout the AuthorsIndex