Radical Hope

Kevin M. Gannon is director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and professor of history at Grand View University. He writes for the Chronicle of Higher Education, gives frequent talks and workshops, and appeared in the Oscar-nominated documentary 13th, directed by Ava DuVernay.

A must-read for pedagogues and theorists alike. Gannon's explorations into history, power, and academia place students and the environments in which they learn front and center for the rest of us to consider. This work isn't about reform, but transformation, and Gannon's book pushes us in the right direction."— JosÉ Luis Vilson, author of This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education"This is the book I needed to read, it was a fresh drink of water in a time of turmoil and despair in education. Gannon grounds his calls for radical hope in the work of educational scholars like Freire, hooks, and Giroux, and offers helpful examples and recommendations based on his years of teaching experience. He tackles real issues we are facing at our institutions head-on without capitulating to clichés or trendy solutions often offered in books about higher education." —Amy Collier, Middlebury College

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Classrooms of Death2. The Things We Tell Our Students3. Cultivating Transformative Teaching4. Teaching and Learning Inclusively5. Making Access Mean Something6. Encouraging Choice, Collaboration, and Agency 7. A Syllabus Worth Reading8. Pedagogy Is Not a Weapon9. Platforms and Power10. I Don’t Know . . . Yet.Coda: Radical Hope, Even When It Seems HopelessNotesIndex