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Derek R. Ford is a PhD candidate in Cultural Foundations of Education at Syracuse University, where he studies philosophy of education. Recent articles have appeared inEducational Philosophy and Theory, Policy Futures in Education, and the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies. He is co-author (with Curry Malott) of Marx, Capital, and Education: Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Becoming (Peter Lang, in press). He is an organizer with the ANSWER Coalition and teaches in the Social Justice Studies Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, May 25, 2015 Studying in the Streets: The Pedagogy of Throwing Bottles at the Cops
What's going on the streets and neighborhoods of an awakened and outraged Black America? The author believes the "skirmishes with the cops" in Baltimore "weren't leading up to a big finale; they were rehearsals for a revolutionary event, for something that we can't quite envision yet, but we know is immanent in the present."