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they are embedded in that most difficult of intertextual histories
to negotiate, the history of one’s own life. (2004, p. 417)
I must remember that Freire cautioned that the classroom is dominated by
the hegemony of the larger society and not really the “lever of revolutionary
transformation” (Shor & Freire, 1987, p. 33). Education may not be the great
equalizer for my students (or for me, for that matter), but it can help us to
compose a more thoughtful draft in the endless revisions of ourselves and our
lives.
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