Harvard Education Press

Humanizing Education
Critical Alternatives to Reform

Edited by Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Kristy S. Cooper, Sherry L. Deckman, Christina L. Dobbs, Chantal Francois, Thomas Nikundiwe, Carla Shalaby

From Dayton, Ohio, to Barcelona, Spain, this collection of essays from the Harvard Educational Review carries readers to places where people have first imagined—and then organized—their own educational responses to dehumanizing practices and conditions. Within a context of continued calls for education “reform,” Humanizing Education: Critical Alternatives to Reform seeks to inspire a collective imagination for radical alternatives. The contributors offer historic examples of hopeful and humanizing educational spaces, practices, and movements that embody a spirit of hope and change.

Contributors include Montse Sánchez Aroca, William Ayers, Kathy Boudin, Fernando Cardenal, Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade, Marco Garrido, Jay Gillen, Maxine Greene, Kathe Jervis, Nancy Uhlar Murray, Valerie Miller, Wendy Ormiston, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, Vanessa Siddle Walker, Arthur E. Thomas, and Travis Wright.