Critical Pedagogy

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.

Foreword by Henry A. Giroux
Stories and News: The Personal and the Public in Education
Teachers' Lives in a Period of Crisis: Tensions of Meaning
Tensions of and between Cultures
Coming to Terms with Difference
Multiculturalism and the Politics of a Democratic Imaginary
A Critical Interdisciplinary Platform of Possibility
Continuing Issues and Trends in Critical Pedagogy: An Interview with Svi Shapiro and a Student
Towards Acts of Confession as a Necessary Step for a Critical Pedagogy
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Index