In the novel, Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice, Kumashiro defines common sense as the ideas people have about how teaching and learning should take place. Although nobody ever directly tells you, “this method, and this method only, is the most effective way to learn”, people gain commonsensical ideas surrounding education through their own experiences in school. Even arbitrary things, such as the months of the year students are in school, become so engrained into our minds as common sense that the mere thought of school taking place any other time seems absolutely ridiculous. For example, if someone in the USA or Canada proposed we begin the…