Mutual Engagement in Spaces of Tension: Moving From Dialogue Toward Action Across Multiple Contexts

Abstract

Guided by a critical race praxis for educational research lens, the authors worked individually alongside their students in a K–12 or higher education classroom, embracing spaces of tension derived from the push and pull between oppression and liberation. The authors explain how these tensions troubled the ways in which humanizing practices are cultivated within constricting institutional contexts. This work supported the authors’ classroom communities to move from dialogue toward collective action.