Critical Pedagogy and Social Change: Critical Analysis on the Language of Possibility

ISBN-13: 9780415886116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 198 str.

Seehwa Cho

Opis

At its core, the main goal of critical pedagogy is deceptively simple-to construct schools and education as agents of change. While noble and ambitious, it is not always realistic in a climate of increased commodification, privatization of schooling, and canned curriculum. By assuming rather than articulating its own possibilities, critical pedagogy literature itself is often its own worst enemy in its call for transformation. With such challenges from both within and without, is the idea of liberatory pedagogy for social change out of reach or can critical educators really achieve the rather high call for social change? What alternative visions of schooling does critical pedagogy truly offer against the mainstream pedagogy? In short, what are the political projects of critical pedagogy? This powerful and accessible text breaks with tradition by teasing out mere assumptions, and provides a concrete illustration and critique of today's critical pedagogy.

Spis treści

Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: The Historical Context: Origin of Critical Pedagogy Chapter Three: The Theoretical Context: Culture and Cultural Politics Chapter Four: Alternative Projects of Critical Pedagogy Chapter Five: Education of Resistance against Globalization Chapter Six: Alternative Models of Society Chapter Seven: Conclusion References Index

O autorze

Seehwa Cho is Associate Professor of Teacher Education, University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, USA.