An extraordinary tribute to the visions of Joyce Canaan, a vibrant academic activist who touched so many with her intellect, her acuity, her humanity and her love. Anyone interested in critical pedagogy has to read this inspiring book that takes so many slices on what the university has become and what it still might be.
(Professor Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley)
This Festschrift is a beautiful tribute to Joyce Canaan, a woman whose revolutionary intellect and commitment should be treasured and studied, not only remembered. Each contribution illuminates her voice and expands on her spirit. The result is a volume that traces how we learn in the pursuit for justice, through building and sharing knowledge within a community of struggle. This is an important volume for any student of revolutionary and feminist education.
(Sara Carpenter, Department of Educational Studies, University of Alberta)
After the great global «pause», this volume presents an exciting look forward through the memory of boundary crosser, Joyce Canaan, whose life's work scrutinized the impact of neoliberal regimes of accountability and the academy's compliance with these processes. Collectively, the contributors warn of cultural myopia: that cultural near-sightedness that stands in the way of critical engagement with exclusionary mechanisms at both the pedagogic and economic levels.
(Sheila Landers Macrine, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)
Joyce Canaan's life illustrates what it means to be angry at social injustice and to challenge it through theory and practice, spirit and emotion, intellectual rigour, love and humour. This collection movingly and rigorously celebrates her personal contribution through engaging with contemporary issues for critical pedagogy today.
(Jim Crowther, Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh)
Critical Pedagogy and Emancipation: A Festschrift in Memory of Joyce
