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Abstract
Critical pedagogy is teaching which aims to help students identify and disrupt the social systems which perpetuate inequity. This essay details the experiences of a teacher, school, and community surrounding a critical pedagogy writing assignment for high school seniors. Although the assignment seemed engaging, it was met with resistance. Two significant and related problems surfaced from analysis of the assignment: 1) the teacher's lack of communication aggravated existing distrust between the schools and the community and 2) the African American community and the school proceeded to address the issue in a manner of mutual distrust, squelching what ...