Che
Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Politics of Hope:
Reclaiming Critical Pedagogy
|
Noted
critical pedagogue Peter Mclaren argues that despite
the wide-spread condemnation of Marxism, the "pedagogical
imperatives" of Che Guevara and Paulo Freire are
needed more that ever in today's society and schools.
<http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/pages/mclaren/> |
| Critical
Theory and Educational Research |
Explores
the concept of "socially critical" research
in education as the term is used in action research.
David Tripp, Associate Professor of Education at Murdoch
University, Australia.
<http://education.curtin.edu.au/iier/iier2/tripp.html>
Also published in:
Issues in Educational Research 2.1 (1992): 13-23. |
| Critical
Thinking and Critical Pedagogy: Relations, Differences,
and Limits |
Compares
and contrasts discursive formulations of the terms "critical
thinking" and "critical pedagogy."
Nicholas C. Burbules, Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor
in the Dept. of Educational Policy Studies, University
of Illinois, and Rupert Berk.
<http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/burbules/ncb/papers/critical.html>
Also published in:
Critical Theories in Education. Thomas S. Popkewitz
and Lynn Fendler, eds. New York: Routledge, 1999. |
| Dis-Integrating
Pedagogies? Critical Theory and Instructional Practice
|
Discusses
the possibilities for constructing a critique of instructional
communication practice that can ultimately inform pedagogy
by shifting the theoretical lens through which power
is studied in the classroom context.
Leda
M. Cooks. CommOddities: A Journal of Communication
& Culture (Online Journal published by the
University of Massachusetts), 2.1 (July 1995).
<http://www.umass.edu/communication/resources/commoddities/papers/leda.shtml>
|
| Freire
Inspired Programs in the United States and Puerto Rico:
A Critical Evaluation |
"This
essay is an effort to conceptualize the problems faced
when trying to use the ideas of Brazilian educator Paulo
Freire in the context of the society of the United States
of America." The site also provides links to responses
to Facundo's critiques of Freirean critical pedagogy.
Blanca
Facundo. Originally published by Latino Institute, Washington,
D.C., in 1984. It was compiled for the web in 1998 by
Brian Martin in Australia.
<http://nlu.nl.edu/ace/Resources/Documents/Facundo.html> |
| Issues
in Freirean Pedagogy |
Particularly
helpful for its extensive glossary of Freirean terms and
concepts.
Tom
Heaney, associate professor in the Department of Adult
and Continuing Education at National-Louis University
and director of the ACE Doctoral Program.
<http://www.nl.edu/ace/Resources/Documents/FreireIssues.html> |
| Media
Literacies and Critical Pedagogy in a Multicultural Society
|
Argues
that a critical pedagogy promoting multicultural education
and sensitivity to cultural difference can empower students
and make education relevant to the challenges of the present
and future.
Douglas
Kellner, Professor, George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education
Chair Social Sciences and Comparative Education, UCLA.
<http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/newDK/medlit.htm>
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| Paulo
Freire and the Politics of Postcolonialism |
Article
by renowned contemporary critical pedagogue Henry A. Giroux.
Giroux argues that Paulo Freire's work must be read as
a postcolonial text and that North Americans in particular
must engage in a radical form of border crossing in order
to reconstruct Freire's work in the specificity of its
historical and political construction.
Henry A. Giroux, Waterbury Chair Professor in the College
of Education at Pennsylvania State University
JAC 12.1 (1992).
<http://jac.gsu.edu/jac/12.1/Articles/2.htm> |
The
Role of Critical Pedagogy in the Globalization Era
and the Aftermath of September 11, 2001.
|
Interview
with noted critical pedagogue, Peter McLaren, Professor
of
Urban Schooling: Curriculum, Teaching, Leadership &
Policy Studies, at UCLA.
Aguirre, L. C. (2001). Revista Electrónica
de Investigación Educativa. 3.2
This is a Spanish language site but the interview is in
English. <http://redie.ens.uabc.mx/vol3no2/contenido-coral.html>
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| Some
Practical Thoughts about Student-Sensitive Critical Pedagogy |
Suggests
four principles of engaging in critical pedagogy while
respecting students' values and beliefs.
H. Douglas Brown, Professor of English (Program in Teaching
English to Speakers of Other Languages) at San Francisco
State University (SFSU). He is also the Director of SFSU's
American Language Institute.
<http://langue.hyper.chubu.ac.jp/jalt/pub/tlt/99/jun/brown.html> |
| Teaching
Critically as an Act of Praxis and Resistance |
Boyce's
paper "presents an overview of critical pedagogy,
shares examples of taking a critical perspective in the
teaching of management and organization studies, and considers
teaching as an arena of praxis and resistance."
Mary E. Boyce, Dean of Whitehead College, University of
Redlands, CA.
<http://newton.uor.edu/FacultyFolder/MBoyce/1CRITPED.HTM>
Also published in EJROT
(The Electronic Journal of Radical Organization Theory),
2.2 Sept, 1996. |
| Toward
a Non-Repressive Critical Pedagogy |
Explores
the possibility and the nature of a non-repressive pedagogy,
examining the relationship between the philosophical framework
and the social tasks of critical pedagogy. He attempts
to encourage a counter-education to hegemonic education
and to oppose the dogmas and illusions of the hegemonic
versions of critical pedagogy.
Ilan Gur-Ze'ev, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa,
Israel.
<http://construct.haifa.ac.il/~ilangz/Critpe39.html>
Also published in:
Educational Theory, 48.4 (1998): 463-486. |
