Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction, 2nd Edition (Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series)

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.

This revised edition explores additional steps in becoming a critical pedagogist.

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Refusing to join the dirge over US public education, Kanpol (education, St. Joseph's U., Phila, PA) combines case studies, personal narratives, and lesson plans in applying critical theory to frame school as a still open-to-possibility democratic public sphere. The author confronts criticism of the inaccessibility of the field's language; the tensions of meaning in teachers' lives, and in and between disciplines and cultures; as well as coming to terms with difference. Includes questions for discussion. A minority of material is drawn from journals over the past decade. Distributed in the US by Greenwood Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

Contents 10 Series Foreword 12 Acknowledgments 14 1 Stories and News: The Personal and the Public in Education 16 2 Teachers' Lives in a Period of Crisis: Tensions of Meaning 40 3 Tensions of and between Cultures 76 4 Coming to Terms with Difference 106 5 Multiculturalism and the Politics of a Democratic Imaginary 126 6 A Critical Interdisciplinary Platform of Possibility 152 7 Continuing Issues and Trends in Critical Pedagogy: An Interview with Svi Shapiro and a Student 174 8 Towards Acts of Confession as a Necessary Step for a Critical Pedagogy 194 Selected Bibliography 214 Index 220 A 220 B 220 C 220 D 221 E 221 F 221 G 221 H 221 I 222 J 222 K 222 L 222 M 222 N 222 O 222 P 222 R 222 S 222 T 223 U 223 V 223 W 223 Y 223 9780897895521 Barry Kanpol. Includes Bibliographical References (pages [199]-203) And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.