Abstract
The idea that hope alone will transform the world, and action undertaken on that kind of naïveté, is an excellent route to hopelessness, pessimism, and fatalism. But the attempt to do without hope, in the struggle to improve the world, as if that struggle could be reduced to calculated acts alone, or a purely scientific approach, is a frivolous illusion.
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Reynolds, W.M. (2015). Critical Pedagogical Praxis. In: Porfilio, B.J., Ford, D.R. (eds) Leaders in Critical Pedagogy. Leaders in Educational Studies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-166-3_1
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