The authors—one faculty member and one undergraduate student—discuss the experiences and outcomes of a course designed around interrogating police, prisons, and carcerality. The paper describes course design and shares reflections on the benefits and challenges of ungrading, power-sharing pedagogies, and care labor. The authors share a course syllabus as pedagogical artifact. This contribution is part of the Abolitionist Pedagogies “distributed special issue” series.
Keywords:
abolitionist pedagogy,
care labor,
carcerality,
ungrading,
police,
prison,
media,
critical university studies
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