This session will bring us back to our roots facilitating a dialogue around the purpose of school in in 21st-century America. First, presenters will provide a framework for thinking about schools divergent from prevailing frameworks. In short, we will suggest that schools should serve as incubators for a civil society that promote humanity, peace, love, and justice. We will, together, critically examine commonly espoused purposes of school. We will consider the role of community in school and consider insights from indigenous/first peoples' ways of learning, knowing, and being.
