This book is based on a study of a graduate program that focused on
anti-oppressive education. The author discusses how anti-oppressive
education consists of inclusive, critical, and poststructural dimensions
that work in different ways to support the perspective transformation of
learners. The author leads readers through his experience learning about
anti-oppressive education and how he, and other participants, changed.
The author answers the following questions: What experiences and
instructional aspects of the anti-oppressive education course did
participants find significant in relation to their sense of
transformation? How did the different anti-oppressive educational
theories and practices affect the participants? To what extent did the
different dimensions of anti-oppressive education discomfort the
participants emotionally and precipitate perspective transformation? How
did participants understand their identities to have changed? Did
participants enact teacher activism that would be evidence of
transformation? What were the personal changes of participants
participating in the course? As well, the author suggests ways to
enhance anti-oppressive education.