Voices of Social Education: A Pedagogy of Change: By Bernardo E. Pohl, Jr., Cameron White, and Christine Beaudry

BOOK REVIEW

Bernardo E. Pohl, Cameron White, and Christine Beaudry’s edited book Vision of Social Education: A Pedagogy of Change is a timely collection of essays by classroom teachers, students, activists, and academics about their experiences, perspectives, concerns, and achievements concerning the state of social education in the United States and around the world. Citing inspiration of critical theorists such as Paolo Freire (1970), Joe L. Kincheloe (2008), Shirley Steinberg (2012), Maxine Greene (1995), and Henry Giroux (2011), Bernardo et al. (2021) state that this book was conceived “with a renewed sense of urgency” to promote social education as a means to “motivate us to work toward change, in hopes that reality may come to more closely approximate what we imagine education and society could and should be” (p. xi). In the wake of serious social issues confronting educators throughout the 21st century, this book provides important insights into how “the collective pursuit for a better and more just world” can start with civil discourse through dialogue to “seek a pedagogy of equality, justice, and love” (pp. ix, xi).