Fighting, Loving, Teaching: An Exploration of Hope, Armed Love and Critical Urban Pedagogies -- DEDICATION -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- Setting -- The Problem -- Research Exploration -- Significance of Research -- Explorations of caring, armed love, and critical pedagogies. -- CHAPTER II: WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH CARING, HOPE AND CRITICAL PEDAGOGIES? -- Forms of Love -- Visions and praxis of caring and armed love. -- Hope -- Critical Pedagogy -- Classroom-based critical pedagogical interventions. -- External to classroom based critical pedagogical interventions. -- CHAPTER III: LENSES TO SEE, WAYS TO LEARN: Theoretical Framework and Methods -- QUALITATIVE RESEARCH -- Theoretical Framework -- Caring -- Armed Love -- Critical Pedagogy -- METHODOLOGY -- Setting, Participants and Study Description -- Setting -- Participants -- Study Description -- DATA SOURCES AND DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURES. -- Data Analysis -- Ethical and Political considerations -- CHAPTER IV: LOVING WITH A SWORD: Caring and Armed love in Clark and Setshwayo's Worlds -- School -- CLARK KENT -- SETSHWAYO DAVIS -- Caring/Armed Love -- Caring -- ARMED LOVE -- Demanding and Understanding -- Clarity and High Expectations -- Respect -- Armed Love and the Salience of Race. -- NOTES -- CHAPTER V: READING THE WORLD WITH CRITICALITY, HOPE AND DESPAIR -- CRITICAL PEDAGOGY -- Awareness of Critical Pedagogy -- HOPE/DESPAIR -- Hope -- Despair -- CHAPTER VI: CRITICAL CLASSROOM PRAXIS AND CONCLUSION -- CARING/ARMED LOVE -- Critical urban pedagogies -- Implications -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.