Liberating the Classroom

This book is what justice, equity, healing, and inclusion look like in what Tessa Hicks Peterson calls a 'beloved community' of learners where educators work with a transformative model of teaching and learning excellence. Here is a hopeful foundation to normalize a new narrative about liberatory education in a quest to have all students become personas educadas who possess the habits of the mind and heart.

Love is the message. With a sobering but hopeful and expressly elegant parlance, Peterson encourages readers to use informed critical pedagogies and liberatory praxis toward progressive academic and student affairs institutional change. Perhaps the message of love is most evident as the author pivots on rich personal and gleaned narratives that punctuate the importance of full participation for deep knowledge-making and healing.

Liberating the Classroom is a powerful call to action for educators, staff, and administrators seeking to transform learning spaces. With care for students at the center, Peterson advocates for moving past one-off 'fixes' for equity issues and provides a robust set of tools to build the groundwork for lasting change.

This is a bold and beautiful book, planting its foot for transformative change. In its commitment to realizing an emerging paradigm for higher education, Liberating the Classroom insightfully reframes the practices underlying student success, educational outcomes, and inclusive pedagogies in order to ensure that they are bent toward justice.