Liberating Learning: Educational Change as Social Movement: By Santiago Rincón Gallardo Co-recipient of the 2021 O. L. Davis, Jr. AATC Outstanding Book in Education Award^*

BOOK REVIEW

In Liberating Learning: Educational Change as Social Movement, Santiago Rincón Gallardo (2019) offers a highly complex, conceptually steep alternative vision of education’s purpose. Hence, given the scope and breadth of the text, this book review highlights several key concepts readers can reflect on that offer a reimagining of the potential power of learning.

In Liberating Learning, Rincón Gallardo situates learning as a practice of freedom, positing that learning requires liberation. In the sphere of public education, liberating learning requires widespread cultural change at the levels of the classroom, school, education system, and community. Rincón Gallardo argues that education, through and in liberated schools, can become a vibrant place for learning and living.