Overview
Critical pedagogy refers to the means and methods of testing and attempting to change the structures of schools that allow inequities. It is a cultural-political tool that takes seriously the notion of human differences, particularly those related to race, class, and gender. Critical pedagogy seeks to release the oppressed and unite people in a shared language of critique, struggle, and hope, to end various forms of human suffering. In this revised edition, Kanpol takes the pre- and in-service educators along some initial steps to becoming critical pedagogists. As before, university professors and public school teachers alike will learn how to address their own prophetic commitments to belief and faith in the fight against despair, institutional chaos, oppression, death of spirit, and exile.Synopsis
This revised edition explores additional steps in becoming a critical pedagogist.
Booknews
Refusing to join the dirge over US public education, Kanpol (education, St. Joseph's U., Phila, PA) combines case studies, personal narratives, and lesson plans in applying critical theory to frame school as a still open-to-possibility democratic public sphere. The author confronts criticism of the inaccessibility of the field's language; the tensions of meaning in teachers' lives, and in and between disciplines and cultures; as well as coming to terms with difference. Includes questions for discussion. A minority of material is drawn from journals over the past decade. Distributed in the US by Greenwood Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)