Critical Pedagogy : Notes from the Real World

by Wink, Joan

• ISBN13: 9780801332579
• ISBN10: 0801332575
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

Full of personal anecdotes and real stories about real teachers, this book unravels the sometimes difficult rhetoric and theory of critical pedagogy and makes a powerful case for classroom practice and integration.

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
Introduction: Welcome to My Real World	1	(182)
Some of What Was Not Said in the First Edition	6	(1)
I Dropped Out	7	(2)
Prologue	9	(5)
The Story of Jonathan	9	(4)
The Journey of Jon Continues	13	(1)
Contradictions and Change	14	(2)
Looking Ahead for Elusive Answers	16	(1)
Notes	17	(2)
Critical Pedagogy: How in the World Did I Get into This?	19	(8)
The Benson Kids: Teaching Is Learning	19	(4)
Learn, Relearn, and Unlearn Your Way to Critical Pedagogy	23	(2)
To Learn: Difficult Learning Experiences	23	(1)
To Relearn: Difficult Relearning Experiences	24	(1)
To Unlearn: Difficult Unlearning Experiences	24	(1)
Looking Ahead for Your Stories of Relearning and Unlearning	25	(1)
Notes	25	(2)
Critical Pedagogy: What in the World Is It?	27	(48)
Dawn Does Critical Pedagogy	27	(1)
Definitions	28	(5)
Generative Definitions	29	(2)
Phony, from the True	31	(2)
Language of Possibility-Language of Critique	33	(1)
Vygotsky: Reaching Back to Move Forward	34	(3)
Conscientization	37	(6)
Carmen Has It	38	(2)
Rainey Doesn't; Well, Didn't	40	(3)
Codification	43	(1)
Cultural Capital	44	(2)
Dialectic	46	(1)
Dialogue	47	(1)
Discourse	48	(5)
Joining the Prairie Club	52	(1)
Hegemony	53	(1)
Hidden Curriculum	54	(1)
Literacies	55	(4)
Reading the Word and the World	56	(2)
Orate and Literate Communities	58	(1)
Pedagogy	59	(1)
Praxis	59	(1)
Problem Posing	60	(2)
To Groom	62	(2)
Around the World	63	(1)
To Name	64	(1)
To Marginalize	65	(1)
To School	66	(1)
To Silence	67	(1)
To Socialize	68	(1)
Voice	69	(3)
Looking Ahead for Your Thoughts and Language on Critical Pedagogy	72	(1)
Notes	73	(2)
Critical Pedagogy: Where in the World Did It Come From?	75	(44)
The Latin Voice	75	(7)
Freire: The Foundation	75	(7)
The European Voice	82	(11)
Gramsci	82	(1)
Marx	83	(2)
The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory	85	(1)
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas	86	(7)
Vygotsky	93	(8)
Why Vygotsky?	93	(1)
Who Is This Educator from the Past Who Tugs Us into Our Future?	94	(1)
Sociocultural Learning	94	(4)
Zone of Proximal Development	98	(1)
Thought and Language	98	(3)
The North American Voice	101	(14)
Dewey	102	(1)
Ada	103	(1)
McCaleb	104	(1)
Giroux	105	(1)
McLaren	106	(3)
Cummins	109	(4)
Krashen	113	(2)
The Benson Kids	115	(1)
Looking Ahead for New Leaders: You!	115	(1)
Notes	116	(3)
Critical Pedagogy: How in the World Do You Do It?	119	(46)
Thinking about Practice	119	(1)
History Helps: Three Perspectives	120	(6)
Transmission Model	121	(1)
Generative Model	122	(1)
Transformative Model	122	(1)
Transmission to Transformative: An Example	123	(3)
KWL	126	(3)
Two Perspectives	129	(6)
Democratic Pedagogy	131	(4)
So How Do You Do Critical Pedagogy?	135	(8)
Problem Posing: Jonathan, An Example from the Community	135	(2)
Problem Posing: Miss Johnson, An Example from Secondary Schools	137	(1)
Principles of Problem Posing	138	(1)
The Teacher's Role in Problem Posing	138	(1)
Problem Posing: Stephanie, An Example from the Primary Grades	139	(1)
Problem Posing: Codification	139	(2)
Problem Posing: Reggie, an Example from Postsecondary	141	(2)
The Essence Is in the Experience	143	(3)
Easy Method/Difficult Text	144	(2)
Popcorn	146	(1)
How-to-Do-It	146	(1)
The Experience	146	(1)
Pair Share	147	(1)
How-to-Do-It	147	(1)
The Experience	147	(1)
Dialogue Journal	147	(1)
How-to-Do-It	147	(1)
The Experience	147	(1)
Bloom's Taxonomies	148	(1)
How-to-Do-It	148	(1)
The Experience	148	(1)
Teaching and Learning on the Desert	149	(1)
Four Corners	149	(2)
How-to-Do-It	149	(1)
The Experience	150	(1)
The Messenger and the Scribe	151	(1)
How-to-Do-It	151	(1)
The Experience	152	(1)
Comprehending/Comprehension	152	(2)
How-to-Do-It	153	(1)
The Experience	153	(1)
Problem Posing Activity: Literacy	154	(3)
How-to-Do-It	154	(1)
The Experience	154	(1)
To Name	155	(1)
To Reflect Critically	155	(1)
To Act	155	(2)
A Mess	157	(3)
Looking Ahead for Elusive Methods	160	(1)
How Do You Think You Do Critical Pedagogy?	160	(1)
Notes	161	(4)
Critical Pedagogy: Why in the World Does It Matter?	165	(18)
Students of the Twenty-First Century	166	(1)
The Pedagogy of a Caring Heart and Critical Eyes	167	(3)
A Caring Heart	168	(1)
A Critical Eye	169	(1)
Pedagogy of Courage and Patience	170	(1)
Time. Time. Time.	171	(2)
From Buttercup to Power	173	(1)
Teachers Taught Me, Too	174	(2)
Now Here Is the Point	176	(1)
To Make a Difference	177	(3)
Bob	177	(2)
Roxanne	179	(1)
Looking Ahead for More Elusive Answers	180	(1)
Note	181	(2)
Bibliography	183	(7)
Credits	190	(1)
Index	191