"A Precise Instrument for Seeing": Remembrance in Burning Vision and the Activist Classroom

Marie Clements' 2002 play, Burning Vision, challenges teachers and students to remember our shared histories with a difference. But it also poses a problem: how model critical memory practices to a group of students eager to make sense of complex problems and move on? ALLISON HARGREAVES examines the risks and rewards of Clements' work in the activist classroom.