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The Limitations of Liberation in the Classroom: Lessons from Minnie Bruce Pratt
- Pedagogy
- Duke University Press
- Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2020
- pp. 49-58
- Article
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Abstract:
In this interview, poet and LGBTQIA activist Minnie Bruce Pratt shares the development of her pedagogy as a new teacher, the connections between her classroom practices and the women’s liberation movement, and some of the assignments she teaches to help people understand themselves. Paradoxically, Pratt offers both a reminder of the limitations of the classroom as a site for change and specific classroom practices and assignments that thoughtfully enact a pedagogy developed from her life’s work for liberation.