Open AccessTeaching for Critical Consciousness During the Student Debt Crisis
Author(s) -
Gregory Bruno
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
radical teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1941-0832
pISSN - 0191-4847
DOI - 10.5195/rt.2020.844
Subject(s) - student debt , critical consciousness , debt , meaning (existential) , consciousness , pedagogy , politics , critical pedagogy , sociology , class (philosophy) , debt crisis , work (physics) , class consciousness , financial crisis , psychology , political science , epistemology , economics , law , philosophy , mechanical engineering , finance , neuroscience , psychotherapist , engineering , macroeconomics
These teaching notes describe one educator’s experience facilitating dialogue around student debt and college cost in the first-year writing class. Rooted in the work of Paulo Freire, particular attention is paid to the role of critical pedagogy and meaning-making practices in these complex political and economic contexts.