Affiliation:
1. University of St. Thomas
Abstract
As an emerging discourse, transformative learning and education is racialized, to use Lucis T. Outlaw's (1996) phrase, in favor of Euro-Americans. Drawing largely on Eurocentric intellectual traditions such as critical theory, constructivism, and psychoanalysis, its public discourse risks being disproportionately shaped by White male authors and White male concerns. Yet the African American intellectual community has conducted a vigorous debate on the process of transformative education and the way factors of race, gender, and class need to be central to its praxis. This article explores the conceptualizations of transformative education articulated by two such African American women—bell hooks and Angela Davis—both of whom are strongly influenced by critical theory and use the language of transformative process in a deliberate and explicit manner to describe their own praxis of political and intellectual engagement.
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