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Pedagogy of the City

Freire

1993

An application of Pedagogy of the Oppressed with specifically the urban poor.

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Tegan MortonA white woman with long brown hair and glasses.
Tegan is a science teacher and equity educator based in NYC. In addition to finding ways big and small to liberate education from oppressive systems.
An image of the lighthouse with the text Third Coast Learning Collaborative.
Reimagining public middle schools in Western Michigan.
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Listening and learning from 400+ young people & educators.

Sunil Singh

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Sunil is an author, speaker, math storyteller, porous educator, advisor at Amplify, music freak and geek and former Board President of Human Restoration Project.

Why I Need To Leave Math Education

August 1, 2023

Look for updates in this space in my mathematical work with The Prison Math Project and Human Restoration Project. Those are the vectors that are aligned to my purpose and passion in education. Those are the places offering hope that mathematics can truly be rehumanized through content and relationships.

The Last of Us: Rehumanizing Mathematics For A Higher Purpose

March 30, 2023

It might as well have been dropped off by aliens in a test tube on a beach one hundred years ago. The inert and sterile nature of current mathematics hasn’t changed much. We just have better technology and pedagogy. It’s like watching a colorized version of an old movie.

The Wrath Without The Math: Why Mathematics Wars Have Only Ever Been Class Wars

March 17, 2023

There is no story. They don’t know it or either they don’t care to know it. They just want back full control of the narrative to position mathematics as a subject aligned to authority and compliance. 

The Myth of Mastery Learning in Education

January 4, 2023

In education, the idea that one can master many ideas in a short period of time, and be subsequently tested to confirm this delusion, is one of the first bricks in the education’s wall that must be removed.

Grading Gets An F: A Mathematician's Guide To The Absurdity of Numerical Assessment

December 6, 2022

Grades are not only statistically useless, they have been acting as academic gatekeepers for millions of students, unjustly sorting, sifting, and selecting which students get to go where and why. 

Storytelling: The Soulful Road Back Home To Mathematics

November 11, 2022

The road back home to mathematics, while lightly traveled, remains in wait for each one of us.

Middle of Everywhere, Center of Nowhere

October 30, 2022

I seem to be in the middle of everywhere. But, I feel in the center of nowhere.

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And I think another thing, in terms of academics in the classroom, the value of going into a class and walking out of it, maybe tired, like, "Oh, that was a lot of work." But feeling like you really took something from it, like an accomplishment, like you literally just built something in your brain, like a new piece of knowledge, it's like, "Oh, yes." It's satisfying. It's an achievement.

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