Chapter 7: Education For Class Consciousness
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Published:2017
E. Wayne Ross, Rich Gibson, 2017. "Education For Class Consciousness", Rethinking Social Studies: Critical Pedagogy in Pursuit of Dangerous Citizenship, E. Wayne Ross
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The sky is of course falling. We are lambs among wolves. The core issue of our time is the relationship of rising color-coded social and economic inequality challenged by the potential of mass class-conscious resistance. This can now be summed up as life and death, an issue that most North Americans avoided during nearly eight years of war because, while the country supports one of the largest militaries in the world, its personnel amount to less than 1% of the population. The very real conflict also sets up a challenge often ignored: how can people become whole, that is live reasonably meaningful intelligible lives in connection with others, in the midst of a social collapse that can quickly become barbarizing?
