Let’s break these terms down a bit and I invite you to join me if you feel resonances and connections. 

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A revolutionary praxis signals a stance, a practice, an active commitment to inciting change in societal systems and structures—in our case, the system of schooling and, more specifically, early childhood educational systems.

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Freedom Dreaming is a term I borrow from the textual and intellectual lineage offered by visionaries such as Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley and Dr. Bettina Love.  At its core, freedom dreaming is about liberation through collective organizing and struggling to birth new worlds into existence. Robin D.G. Kelley frames freedom dreaming as a stance where those working toward an enduring justice grapple with “what kind of world we want to struggle for” (p. 7). Where dreaming is situated as “work,” the Educational Freedom Dreaming Project takes up the work of abolishing racial and other injustices in the field of education and dreaming into existence learning experiences marked by justice and love--for  students but in particular, for BIPOC students and their families who have experienced educational, political, social, and economic disenfranchisement, historically.

 

As educators, this equals the practical realization that education is constituted by far more than traditional schooling and embracing communities and contexts outside of school walls to do the work of world-building (among other things). 

 

And I use the term Collective deliberately and intentionally, embracing its multifaceted etymology. Collective signals a group formation and here at the FDC, our Collective engages in a process called study-and-struggle through reading critically and acting intentionally with texts. [See our Study-and-Struggle Book Club for more information on this offering.] Finally, Collective signals our rejection of racial capitalist logics in favor of more socialist ways of being and doing that center humanizing and democratizing ideals as they pertain to the creation and distribution of material and other resources. As educators, this equals de-privatizing resources and programmes in schooling for the sake of dismantling savage systemic inequalities (among other things). 

My mini-courses, workshops, and small-group coaching are all designed to help you cultivate a mindset, disposition, and praxis that leads to individual and collective transformation in your educational world and in the education field writ large!