Grace Lee Boggs's Person-Centered Education for Community-Based Change
Feminist Pragmatism, Pedagogy, and Philosophical Activism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12146175 |
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| Authors | Tess Varner (0000-0002-4544-724X, Concordia College - Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 437-446 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hypatia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/hyp.2021.26 |
| OpenAlex | W3159921407 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This paper offers an overview of Grace Lee Boggs's community-based and person-centered philosophy and pedagogy, highlighting how education can foster social responsibility and create democratic habits in students, better equipping them to create radical change within their communities. The essay demonstrates Boggs's commitment to philosophical-activist pedagogy and its alignment with a feminist-pragmatist approach, which emphasizes lived experience, pluralism, complexity, and equality, as well as praxis. The essay then considers how Boggs's philosophical activism can be enacted inside and outside the traditional classroom, concluding by describing an educational and activist project called Narrative 4
Democracy · Epistemology · Narrative · Pedagogy · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Pragmatism · Praxis · Sociology · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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