Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Critical Pedagogy

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 
context,and personal consequences of any action, event, object, process, organization, 


experience, text, subject matter, policy, mass media, or discourse. (Shor, 1992)




  


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