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What is Radical Pedagogy?

The Radical Pedagogy Institute is a collective of educators based in the greater New Jersey area (this includes NYC) who believe in the transformational power of radical pedagogy and local political organizing. But what exactly do we mean by radical pedagogy? Essentially, we view radical pedagogy as a pedagogy that uses tenets of critical pedagogies–-queer, anti-racist, DisCrit, culturally relevant, and other liberatory pedagogies–-to re/humanize educational experiences for all students.

Searchable Database

In order to illustrate what we view as radical pedagogy, the below searchable database includes a select number of resources (there are so many!) that we have found useful in our own framing of what a truly “radical” pedagogy might entail and how to leverage such practices to re/humanize our PK-12 classrooms.

Search, filter, group, or sort by title, author, category, year, format, content area, grade level, and/or journal/publisher. Click in the bottom righthand corner for a larger view.

What resource(s) have you used in your framing of radical pedagogy? Submit through this form and we’ll add them to the list!

the Institute logo - a white square with a black outline. Inside the square is the mathematical radicand symbol, w/4 resistance forearms/fists, all of varying shades of skin color & heights, breaking through the top of the radicand. Forearm on the far left has a wristband w/the Philly pride flag colors (black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple) & the 2nd to last 1 on the right has a wristband w/the trans flag colors (baby blue, light pink, white, light pink, baby blue)

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