Event Launch: Democratic Pedagogies Journal Special Issue

Date: Monday, December 8, 2025
Time: 12pm - 1:30pm EST
Location: Virtual via Zoom

Join us for the virtual launch of “Democratic Pedagogies: Practices, Challenges, and Visions for Democratic Futures in Education,” our Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy special issue!

Rooted in interdisciplinary perspectives on critical and democratic pedagogies, this special issue explores the university as it is and as it could be, interrogating the promises and contradictions of education as a site of democratic practice. Contributors highlight the diverse ways people understand and experience education, offering ideas and practical tools that challenge undemocratic classrooms and curricula. How do we cultivate classrooms as communities of co-learners? How do we nurture belonging, care, and pluriversal knowledge? And how do we live democracy in spaces shaped by colonial legacies? Join us as we return to these guiding questions and more, delving deeper into the issue’s insights. 

At this event, participants will explore the field of democratic pedagogies and engage with the issue’s main themes of: 

• Thinking democratic pedagogies as praxis, 

• Remaking the “classroom” through community-engaged democratic pedagogies, and

• Designing and experimenting with democratic pedagogies. 

We will reflect on what it means to practice democracy across diverse learning environments, opening a collective space to reimagine education’s role in shaping radically democratic futures, through a shared learning experience. 

We invite educators, researchers, students, and community members to join us in celebrating this publication and engaging in a wider conversation about democratizing and decolonizing learning spaces.

Click here to find the special issue. 

We hope to see you there!

Cover art by Madhuvanthi Mohan, aka Something Sketchy (2025).