Bozalek, Vivienne, Leibowitz, Brenda, Carolissen, Ronelle & Boler, Megan (Eds.) (2013). Discerning Critical Hope in Educational Practices. London and New York: Routledge

Paulo Freire, regarded as one of the most influential educators of the 20th century, proclaimed in Pedagogy of Hope that hope is an ontological need, which “demands an anchoring in practice” (Freire, 1994, p. 2). The kind of hope that Freire was referring to was not a naive hope that is “subjectively idealistic” (Freire, 1970, p. 129), but rather, critical hope fostered through a radical pedagogy combining “hope, critical reflection and...