Freire's work has had much to say to educators around the world about the place of education in challenging injustice and opening up possibilities for people. McClaren (2002: 250) characterized his work as being concerned with "practicing a politics of diversity and self affirmation in short, a cultural politics as an end in itself but in relation to a larger politics of liberation and social justice
However, like the constructivists (Chapter 3), critical educators do not form a homogeneous whole. Instead, the critical education family' has several branches that pursue particular issues and interests and challenge all educators to do the same We will examine two branches of the critical education family feminist educational theories and critical race theory (sometimes called critical multiculturalism)