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Grace Lee Boggs's Person-Centered Education for Community-Based Change: Feminist Pragmatism, Pedagogy, and Philosophical Activism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2021

Tess Varner
Tess Varner*
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Concordia College, Department of Philosophy, 901 8th Street South, Moorhead, MN 56562
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Corresponding author. Email: tvarner@cord.edu
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Abstract

This paper offers an overview of Grace Lee Boggs's community-based and person-centered philosophy and pedagogy, highlighting how education can foster social responsibility and create democratic habits in students, better equipping them to create radical change within their communities. The essay demonstrates Boggs's commitment to philosophical-activist pedagogy and its alignment with a feminist-pragmatist approach, which emphasizes lived experience, pluralism, complexity, and equality, as well as praxis. The essay then considers how Boggs's philosophical activism can be enacted inside and outside the traditional classroom, concluding by describing an educational and activist project called Narrative 4.

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Hypatia , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , Spring 2021 , pp. 437 - 446
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Hypatia, a Nonprofit Corporation

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