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anti-oppressive education  

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  • Anti-oppressive education is a form of education that actively challenges injustice and oppression at both the micro level of teaching and the macro level of education reform, and draws together various theoretical traditions, including critical, feminist, multicultural, queer, and postcolonial perspectives. This entry describes several central concepts in anti-oppressive education, including common sense, contradiction, and crisis. [Source: Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education; Anti-Oppressive Education]

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