Allow me to make some preliminary comments about my experience so far. Educational institutions are largely conservative. Out of respect, deferential students rarely question their professors. Respecting cultural values, while collapsing the social distance that blocks critique, is a difficult balancing act. I asked participants in one course to construct the syllabus.
Groups facilitate class sessions and select readings.
I try to create a safe space for open discourse, individual and group reflection. So far, participants are slowly becoming more astute observers of oppression in their society but have yet to own much of it themselves. Social class differences still make doing for easier than doing with . I also facilitated a faculty development workshop on philosophy of education. The workshop and some conversations have led some professors to experiment with democracy in their classrooms.