教师进行跨学科分析以了解学校的功能，局限性和可能性。尤其是，种族，阶级和性别关系是社会力量，可以为学校和各种教育空间（例如体育运动以及其他正式和非正式学习社区）的组织提供信息并形成组织。面对社会不平等，经济结构调整以及民族国家不断变化的社会关系，并与之相关，教师们探索学校在维持民主社会中的作用。例子包括学生与教师之间的互动，被视为官方课程的知识，有关学科或资金的政策以及教育环境与学习成果之间的差异。
Our faculty engage in interdisciplinary analysis to understand the functions, limits, and possibilities of schooling. In particular, race, class, and gender relations are social forces that inform and shape the organization of schools and various educational spaces including formal and informal learning communities. Our faculty also examine the transformative functions of language and literacy keeping in constant view their potential to effect social change and create more just societies. We explore the role of schooling in building and sustaining a democratic society in the face of social inequality, economic restructuring, and changing social relations in the nation-state. Examples include the political activities of students and teachers in and out of school, the pedagogy of radical social movements, the root causes and effects of white supremacy and settler colonialism in education, the knowledge valued as the official curriculum, policies concerning discipline or funding, and disparities between educational contexts and in learning outcomes.