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New Issue of Critical Education (v17 n3, 2026)

Critical Education
Volume 17, Number 3
2026

This issue of Critical Education includes the second instalment of our Special Section on Palestinian Liberation in Education, which focuses on solidarities and activism for a free Palestine.

The general Articles section includes studies of stupidity as a pedagogical commitment; how the debate on smartphones in schools hides deeper social issues; the ways in which doctoral students experience and navigate power within supervisory relationships; the effects of and resistance to policies promoting privatization of education; academic capitalism and accreditation in higher education; the lived experiences of racialized educators; and trauma-informed relational pedagogy.

The Book and Media Reviews section examines two books published earlier this year: Beyond Bad Apples: Teacher Education for Police-Free Schools and AI Schools and the New Child Labor.

New issue of Critical Education includes translation of 1967 Paulo Freire lecture


This new issue of Critical Education (Vol. 17 No. 2) includes translation of a lecture given by Paulo Freire at a 1967 conference held in Santiago under the sponsorship of the Organization of American States, the government of Chile, and the University of Chile. Scholars from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, and The Netherlands contribute articles on education of justice-involved youth; pedagogies of resistance; Gen-AI solutionism; white privilege in teacher hiring policies; how the rise of anti-wokeness upholds and nourishes systemic oppression; and former students’ experiences in Sudbury model schools, which emphasize student autonomy, egalitarian relationships, and minimal hierarchy. In addition, there are reviews of books by Henry A. Giroux (Revised edition of Teachers as Intellectuals) and Marc Spooner and James McNinch (Knowledge Under Siege: Charting a Future for Universities).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14288/ce.v17i2 
Published: 2026-05-17