Unveiling reality & the emergence of consciousness: Emancipatory possibilities of a grassroots journal

Abstract

With an overwhelming number of publications now available in the field of education, one might wonder: Why is another journal necessary? What is often overlooked in such a question is the importance of intentionality. The majority of education journals today are deeply mired in hierarchical academic values and traditions that generally have little to do with unveiling the oppressive social and material conditions faced by oppressed students and their communities—conditions that have resulted from long histories of racialized exclusion and embedded structures of economic exploitation. As such, a grassroots community based publication that uncompromisingly seeks to disrupt the culture of banking education, for example, is not only a significant gesture but also imperative, in these difficult times.