Cultivating Community Cultural Wealth and Armed Love: Freedom School as
a Vanguard
Abstract
We present a conceptual exploration of armed love as a component of
liberatory pedagogy. We ground our work in community cultural wealth
theory (CCW), centering social capital often found in non-dominant
communities under pressure. We argue that recognizing and working
against exploitation using the community’s social, cultural, and
historical assets are central to liberatory pedagogy. Explicating the
connections between armed love and CCW is a novel contribution to the
field, as it has not been done before and it highlights how asset-based
pedagogies that are grounded in love can act as a protective factor for
students in a racist society