In this essay, the authors argue that by using perspectives such as critical posthumanism to inform teacher preparation, educators can develop leaders in schools and beyond who can be a central part of an effort to think and live differently in a deeply polarized, "post-truth" era. They present four examples that describe specific…

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…

This article explores a research partnership between a university-based researcher and a middle school science teacher. Our partnership began with project-based inquiry and continued with unstructured thought-partner spaces: meetings with no agenda where we wrestled with problems of practice. Framed as incubation periods, these meetings allowed us…