Contents
Series Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xv
“For Justice”: Our Found Poem #1
1. Schools for What and for Whom? A Focus on Engaged Pedagogies 1
Engaged Pedagogy, Resistance, and Not Reform 3
Trouble Behind and Ahead . . . Reform 8
Pursuing Transformations 10
Learning and Change 15
Where Is the Justice? Overview 15
Consider the Following 19
“On Not Waiting”: Our Found Poem #2
2. Bringing Learning to Life! Engaged Pedagogies in Practice 23
Coming Together: A BLTL Session at Connected 25
Bringing Learning to . . . What? A Brief Overview 28
Situating the Course in a Larger Context 32
You Did What? An Overview of BLTL Projects 35
BLTL Educator Pam Reed and a Focus on Positionality 37
Engaged Pedagogies in Practice 39
What If? 40
Appendix 2.A: Examples of Other Course Texts and Readings 41
Appendix 2.B: Examples of BLTL Critical Service-Learning and
Engagement Projects 42
“Waiting for . . .?”: Our Found Poem #3
3. With a Revolutionary Mind: Literacies, Communities, and Engaged Pedagogies 49
A Brief Vignette 51
Hyphenating Literacies 53
Empathetic Leadership 60
Consider These: Reflective Prompts 65
Restoration 70
“Change, Changes, Changing”: Our Found Poem #4
4. “Because I Am You”: Engaged Pedagogies and Critical Youth Organizing Literacies 75
Time Travel 79
Imagination and the Impossible: Youth Futures 80
Establishing Context: Justice High School and BLTL 83
Reflections From the Wake: BLTL and the World
Humanities Class 84
Engaging Activist Rhetorics: Cyberbullying and
Neighborhood Pride 88
Ruptured Landscapes, Engaged Learning 91
“Being Radical”: Our Found Poem #5
5. Where Is the Justice? Reconfiguring Time and Space for Engaged Pedagogies 95
Upheaval and Moments of Clarity 96
How Might These Things Look? 100
Civil Rights’ Educators 100
Learningscapes: Setting the Stage 102
What About Time? 104
Reconfiguring Space as Place-Making 111
Expanded Learningscapes 115
The Paradoxes of Engaged Pedagogies 117
Improvisation Artists, Masterful Weavers 120
“Really Not Waiting”: Our Found Poem #6
6. Irradicable Impacts: Engaged Pedagogies as Invitations to Equitable Learningscapes 123
Répondez S’il Vous Plaît: An Invitation 124
Scene I: Sisters’ Organic Learningscapes 126
Scene II: Engaging Fraternal Proximities 128
Scene III: Engagement as Retention 131
Scene IV: Really . . . A Power Drill? 133
Scene V: An Invitation to Reclaim Our Futures 136
“Moving, Even in Stillness”: Our Found Poem #7
7. Waiting for What? 141
This Is Not an Ending 144
“Waiting for What?” An Offering Found in Poetry (#8)
Notes 153
References 157
Index 167
About the Authors 173
