What is Critical Pedagogy

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The practice of deconstructing one’s perspective, values in relationship to how they engage in the educational process. Learn more in: Interactive Digital Instruction: Pedagogy of the 21st Century Classroom

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A discourse designed to examine existing social structures and create ways to implement effective change through viable and accessible actions and solutions. Learn more in: Unlocking the Liberation Doctrine in Media Literacy and Higher Education

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An approach to teaching and learning that disrupts traditional notions of teacher as leader and dominant figure in the learning environment. Instead advocates for giving prominent attention to the socially oppressed and the wisdom they possess of their condition. The goal is to allow them to be empowered and to reverse their subordinate social positions. Learn more in: Preparing to Be Digital: The Paradigm Shift for Media Studies and Higher Education

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Emerges as both a theory and a praxis. At the core of this is the need for teachers to situate learning and teaching within the social and political contexts of the education system. As such, it therefore presents a method or medium of teaching through which teachers can transform the nature of classroom relations, the capacities of and possibilities for both teachers and students. Learn more in: Moving Away From the “Chalk and Board”: Lessons From a Critical Pedagogical Standpoint

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Teaching methods that develop the ability to collect, analyze, interpret, reflect, summarize, and synthesize information from different perspectives. Learn more in: Globalization and Teacher Education: Challenges and Solutions to 21st Century Content Preparation and Pedagogy in Africa

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Based in Freirian thought, critical pedagogues see all education (or the withholding of it) as a political act. They are committed to social justice, and to a co-learning pedagogy with students that will, with work lead to a critical consciousness or conscientization. Learn more in: Whose Side Are We On?: A Call for Critical Solidarity With Participants in Education Research

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A set of philosophies, theories, and practices that can enable educators to acknowledge and counter social issues that are rooted in oppression or domination. Learn more in: Teaching Teacher Agency in an Era of Standardization

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Focuses on political and economic issues of schooling such as the representation of texts and construction of subjective states of mind in the student; when applied to media education, it begins with an assessment of contemporary culture and the function of media within it. Learn more in: Communication and Media Theory

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The observation that teaching strategies are differentiated between income levels of various groups resulting in more powerful learning opportunities residing with upper income levels than lower income levels. Learn more in: Critical Literacy and Technology: An Essential Intersection for Our Nation's Schools

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An educational approach that prioritizes student development of advanced critical thinking skills or “conscientization.” See Conscientization, below. Learn more in: Buddhist Detachment as a Conceptual Point of Entry into Teaching Sociopolitically-Located Multicultural Education Online

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Seeks to affect radical social change by deconstructing the cultural discourses and mechanisms that work to reproduce the social structure. Its main tools are based on critique, deconstruction and socio-political activism. Learn more in: Making Identity Visible: The Case of the “Museum in a Suitcase”

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Education practices that are informed by a need to transform and self-reflect for change and empowerment using the vast majority of struggling students due to the existing system to become the defining feature for change. Learn more in: Indigenous Knowledge Exclusion in Education Systems of Africans: Impact of Beingness and Becoming an African

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Grounded in the work of Paulo Freire, this philosophy and social movement applies components of critical theory to education. Specifically, the term is encompassing of the belief that teaching and learning are inherently political acts which foster or impede social justice and democracy. Learn more in: Exploring the Impact of Service-Learning on Literacy Teachers' Self-Reported Empathy

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An educational means through which educators can raise a critical consciousness in their students. Learn more in: Movement Intellectuals in Popular Music: An Alternative Means of Public Education

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Teaching and learning designed to enable learners, particularly members of oppressed or marginalized groups, to combat social injustice and prejudice. Learn more in: Pedagogical Values in Online and Blended Learning Environments in Higher Education

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A teaching approach inspired by critical theory, radical and other social movement philosophies that attempts to help learners to question and challenge beliefs and practices that promotes domination, segregation, and inequality among races, color, ethnicities, beliefs, political positions, and principles. Learn more in: Reinventing Critical Digital Literacy to Empower Student-Teachers in Cross-Cultural, Web-Based Learning Environments