“A pedagogy of love is a genuine admiration and devotion to human well being spiritually, physically, and mentally. It embraces the strengths and weaknesses of those participating and recognizes the current realities of their oppression as a launching point for empowerment. Within this framework, a pedagogy of love informs the development of a culture of social justice, which is the opposite of injustice, of exploitation, oppression, and the domination of another, and rather is a counter hegemonic ideology that is committed to “unity of diversity.” In this sense, unity of diversity means a critical and compassionate consciousness that seeks fairness, equality, and the restoration of humanity.

A pedagogy of love defines youth organizing as a reciprocal engagement of teaching and learning in which youth and adults are both teachers and learners participating in collective efforts to democratize society, reinvent thinking, and ultimately alter relations of power on behalf of social justice. Youth Organizing under this vision involves reflection and action strategies in which participants learn as they experience the learning. Simultaneously, they engage in spaces of debate, discussion, and dialectical interaction for reflection and reinvention of knowledge and truth.

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