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What is Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy?

In this short video, FCIP Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy Specialist Justin D. Wright provides a brief introduction to Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy.

Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy (AOP) is an approach to teaching and learning that organizes efforts in the direction of institutional and social change, which requires continuous critical self-reflection, lifetime learning, and progressive betterment (or the Jesuit value of Magis). Through specific and intentional strategies in- and outside the classroom, AOP seeks to acknowledge and confront the fundamentally racist, colonial, homophobic, gendered, ableist, and transphobic underpinnings of our society and educational systems. AOP is a series of frameworks and processes, grounded in an intersectional approach (an approach rooted in the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, sexuality, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination, disadvantage, or privilege), and operates on the understanding that the societal underpinnings of oppression are systems entrenched in the very structures of our institutions, including our places of higher learning. 

 

List of Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies:

 

Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy (AOP) is an approach to teaching and learning that organizes efforts in the direction of institutional and social change, which requires continuous critical self-reflection, lifetime learning, and progressive betterment (or the Jesuit value of Magis). Through specific and intentional strategies in- and outside the classroom, AOP seeks to acknowledge and confront the fundamentally racist, colonial, homophobic, gendered, ableist, and transphobic underpinnings of our society and educational systems. AOP is a series of frameworks and processes, grounded in an intersectional approach (an approach rooted in the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, sexuality, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination, disadvantage, or privilege), and operates on the understanding that the societal underpinnings of oppression are systems entrenched in the very structures of our institutions, including our places of higher learning. 

 

List of Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies: