Cover art for The Radical Imagine-Nation.
At a time when the political future of public education and society in general is in grave doubt, we are pleased to announce an innovative and iconoclastic Chapman journal that has been designed to participate in shaping this future in the direction of social justice:
The Radical Imagine-Nation
. While historical amnesia runs deep among the educational establishment and teachers are often too bogged down in the myopia of everyday classroom life or buried under the mandates of a bureaucracy overwhelmingly shaped by conservative policymakers and white-collar elites defending their race and class privileges to make much headway along the path to serious educational reform,
The Radical Imagine-Nation
is a place to convene a gathering to look at the big picture and engage in serious conversations about strategy. We believe it is time to take our pedagogical vision to the national stage. 
The Radical Imagine-Nation
has been designed to be accessible to teachers and the wider public, and consistent in its message and its call for revolutionary changes in our education system with an emphasis on economic justice. But the
Radical Imagine-Nation
is far from a single-issue journal and offers a large tent for organization-building and collective strategizing, with 5 base areas that include Reinventing Freire; Public Intellectual; The Internationalist; Radicalizing Action; and Book Reviews.  Inspired by historical movements of the dispossessed, including activists from antiwar, civil rights, and feminist struggles, as well as the labor-left,
The Radical Imagine-Nation
speaks to key problems plaguing society such as the juggernaut of neoliberal capitalism and to issues with which people across the country are grappling such as equality of access and outcome in our school system, high-stakes testing, teacher accountability, police violence, racism, white supremacy, economic inequality, urban violence, and patriarchy. In this way
The Radical Imagine-Nation
 is a forum for public pedagogy as it attempts to become part of ongoing democratic struggles throughout the United States, setting a high standard for those who are self-described as progressives, populists or leftists.

Published by Peter Lang Publishers, the celebration of the launching of the journal will occur at the American Education Research Association’s annual conference in Washington D.C. on April 10, 2016. Its editorial collective include senior editors, Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo, associate editors Anaida Colon-Muniz, Lilia Monzo, Miguel Zavala, and all faculty in the College of Educational Studies.