This article argues that Paulo Freire's pedagogy of the oppressed, feminist pedagogy and the methods of writing across the curriculum programs can be used in the classroom to broaden students' understanding of the possibilities of the workplace. Each of these approaches to teaching mirrors values which differ from those within capitalist relations of production and gives students practice in using them.
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