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Any educator will tell you that teaching is hard; it is exhausting, painful, frustrating and, at times, seemingly thankless. The difficulty of being a critical democratic educator who teaches with the desire of furthering social justice is tenfold. In previous articles (see Kress, 2010 and Kress, 2012) I have described the process of being and becoming a critical democratic educator as similar to playing a perpetual game of pinball.
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Kress, T.M. (2013). Tilting at Windmills. In: Kress, T.M., Lake, R. (eds) We Saved the Best for You. Imagination and Praxis, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-122-1_1
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