What is Critical Pedagogy?
Critical
pedagogy is a
teaching approach which attempts to help students question and challenge
domination, and the beliefs and practices that dominate them. It tries to help students become
critically conscious. (Wikpedia, 2008)
How to be Critically Conscious?
According to Ira Shor (1992) a student can be
critically conscious by:
Thinking,
reading, writing, and speaking while going beneath the surface meaning
A student must go beyond: Myths, clichés,
received wisdom, and mere opinions.
Most importantly students must understand the deep meaning, root causes, social
Most importantly students must understand the deep meaning, root causes, social
context,and personal consequences of any action, event, object, process, organization,
experience, text, subject matter, policy, mass media, or discourse. (Shor, 1992)
experience, text, subject matter, policy, mass media, or discourse. (Shor, 1992)
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