Critical Pedagogy : Where Are We Now?

by McLaren, Peter; Kincheloe, Joe L.

• ISBN13: 9780820481470
• ISBN10: 0820481475
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

Our educational system is in turmoil. Many would argue that it has been assaulted and oversimplified by the right. There is growing concern that we are becoming a liberal nation-state with an increasingly anti-liberal population and an electorate that is

Table of Contents

Preface : where are we now?
Introduction : democracy, education, and the politics of critical pedagogy	p. 1
Critical pedagogy in the twenty-first century : evolution for survival	p. 9
Religion as socio-educational critique : a Weberian example	p. 43
Critical pedagogy and the crisis of imagination	p. 57
Locations (or not) of critical pedagogy in Les Petites et Les Grandes Histoires	p. 79
Neoliberal non-sense	p. 97
The politics and ethic of performance pedagogy : toward a pedagogy of hope	p. 127
From social to socialist media : the critical potential of the Wikiworld	p. 143
Glocalizing critical pedagogy : a case of critical English language teaching in Korea	p. 163
Critical pedagogy and popular culture in an urban secondary English classroom	p. 183
Critical pedagogy and young children's world	p. 201
Escola Cidada and critical discourses of educational hope	p. 209
Musicing Paulo Freire : a critical pedagogy for music education	p. 223
Reflections on the violence of high-stakes testing and the soothing nature of critical pedagogy	p. 239
Pedagogy of testimony : reflections on the pedagogy of critical pedagogy	p. 249
Critical pedagogy and teacher education : radicalizing prospective teachers	p. 263
The future of the past : reflections on the present state of empire and pedagogy	p. 289
Red Lake Woebegone : pedagogy, decolonization, and the critical project	p. 315
The poverty of critical pedagogy : toward a politics of engagement	p. 337
Frantz Fanon and a materialist critical pedagogy	p. 355
Critical pedagogy : democratic realism, neoliberalism, conservativism, and a tragic sense of education	p. 371
Afterword : reinserting criticity into critical pedagogy	p. 391
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