What Does Injustice Have to Do with Me? A Pedagogy of the Privileged.

@article{Nurenberg2011WhatDI,
  title={What Does Injustice Have to Do with Me? A Pedagogy of the Privileged.},
  author={David Nurenberg},
  journal={Harvard Educational Review},
  year={2011},
  volume={81},
  pages={50-64}
}
In this article, David Nurenberg relates his experiences as a suburban high school humanities teacher struggling to engage students with issues of social justice. His story reveals what happens when a teacher works against the resistance of his primarily white and privileged students to reading "literature of the oppressed" on the grounds that it is irrelevant to their lives. Nurenberg draws on Freirean pedagogy, which encourages socially conscious educators to help make learning authentic and… 
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