Critical Pedagogy

Packet compiled by Martha Carita, Chris Camacho, and Kelvin Thompson

For EDF7232 (Dr. Kay Allen)

Electronic version of this packet available online http://kelvinandwendy.com/criticalpedagogy

Contents

· References consulted

· Suggested reading

· Materials for activities

References Consulted

Sites

Jensen, W. (n.d.) Application of the Critical Theory. [On-Line]. Available:http://www127.pair.com/critical/terms.htm

Journal of Critical Pedagogy. [On-Line]. Available:
http://www.wmc.edu/academics/library/pub/jcp/jcp.html

Key Terms. (n.d.). [On-Line]. Available:http://www.trentu.ca/nativestudies/courses/nast305/keyterms.htm

Ohliger, J. (n.d.) Critical Views of Paulo Freire's Work. [On-Line]. Available:http://nlu.nl.edu/ace/Resources/Documents/Ohliger1.html

Shaw, A. (n.d.). Possibilities. [On-Line]. Available: http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~possible/possibil.html

TIPs Database at Univ. of Colorado (n.d.). Critical Pedagogy. [On-Line]. Available:http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc/crit_ped.html

TIPs Database at Univ. of Colorado (n.d.). Postmodernism. [On-Line]. Available:http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html

University of Western Australia. (n.d.). Critical pedagogy. [On-Line]. Available:

http://www.csd.uwa.edu.au/altmodes/to_delivery/critical_pedagogy.html

Books

Wink, J. (2000). Critical Pedagogy: Notes from the Real World. New York: Longman.

Articles

Anderson, A. (n.d.) Why dialogue? [On-Line]. Available: http://www.agorapublications.com/dialogue.htm

Boyce, M. (n.d.) Teaching critically as an act of praxis and resistance. [On-Line]. Available: http://newton.uor.edu/FacultyFolder/MBoyce/1CRITPED.HTM

Brown, H. (n.d.). Some Practical Thoughts about Student-Sensitive Critical Pedagogy [On-Line]. Available: http://langue.hyper.chubu.ac.jp/jalt/pub/tlt/99/jun/brown.html

Goodburn, A. and Ina, B. (1994). Collaboration, Critical Pedagogy, and Struggles Over Difference, JAC. 14:1 [On-Line]. Available: http://jac.gsu.edu/jac/14.1/Articles/7.htm

Higgins, John W., 1996. Cite as: Higgins, John W. (1996). Sense-Making as a method of practicing a critical pedagogy in the multi-cultural classroom. Paper presented at International Communication Association annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, May 23. [On-Line]. Available: http://communication.sbs.ohio-state.edu/sense-making/meet/m96higgins.html

Jantzie, N. (1997). Colonization or liberation? Learning technologies and their implementations in a restructured world. [On-Line]. Available: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~gnjantzi/apaperi.htm

Jarvis, R. (1996). Practicing at Praxis: Doing Critical, Feminist Pedagogy. [On-Line]. Available: http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/bjarvis/96-598/4cs.htm

Kanpol, B. (n.d.). Critical Pedagogy For Beginning Teachers: the Movement From Despair To Hope [On-Line]. Available: http://www.wmc.edu/academics/library/pub/jcp/issueII-1/kanpol.html

Kellner, D. (n.d.) Media literacies and critical pedagogy in a multicultural society. [On-Line]. Available: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/newDK/medlit.htm

McLaren, P. (1999). Contesting capital: Critical pedagogy and globalism a response to Michael Apple. Current Issues In Comparative Education. 1:2. [On-Line]. Available: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/cice/vol01nr2/pmart1.htm

Mittman, J. (n.d.). Crossing the Borders of Critical Pedagogy and Creative Process: A Rationale and Practical Application Using Improvisational Theater and Interactive Television with Semi-Rural Teenagers [On-Line]. Available: http://www.lib.wmc.edu/pub/jcp/issueI-1/mittman.html

Petruzzi , A. (n.d.). Hermeneutic Disclosure as Freedom: John Dewey and Paulo Freire on the Non-Representational Nature of Education. [On-Line]. Available: http://www.wmc.edu/academics/library/pub/jcp/issueII-1/petruzzi.html

Reitz, C. (n.d.). Elements of EduAction: Critical pedagogy and the community college. [On-Line]. Available: http://www.wmc.edu/academics/library/pub/jcp/issueI-2/reitz.html

For Further Reading

Burbules, Nicholas C. & Rice, Suzanne (l991). “Dialogue across difference: Continuing the conversation.” Harvard Educational Review, vol. 6l: 303.4l6.

Burbules, Nicholas C. (l993). Dialogue in Teaching: Theory and Practice (New York: Teachers College).

Burbules, Nicholas C.(l996). “Postmodern doubt and philosophy of education.” Philosophy of Education l995, Alven Neiman, ed., (Urbana, Ill.: Philosophy of Education Society), 39-48

Cherryholmes, Cleo (l988). Power and Criticism (New York: Teachers College Press).

Ellsworth, Elizabeth (L989). “Why doesn’t this feel empowering? Working through the repressive myths of critical pedagogy.” Harvard Educational review, vol 59 no.3: 297-324.

Ennis, Robert H. (l962). “A concept of critical thinking.” Harvard Educational review, vol.32 No.l: 161-178.

Freire, Paulo (l970a). Cultural Action for Freedom (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational review).

Freire, Paulo and Macedo Donald (l987). Literacy: Reading the world and the Word (South Hadley, MA: Bergin Garvey).

Garrison, James W. and Phelan, Anne M. (l990). “Toward a feminist poetic of critical thinking.” Philosophy of Education l989.

Giroux, Henry A. (l988). Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning (South Hadley, A: Bergin Garvey, l988).

Giroux, Henry A. (l992c). “ The Habermasian headache: A response to Dieter Misgeld.” Penomenology+Pedagogy, vo. 10:143-149.

Giroux, Henry A. (l992c).”Resisting differnce: Cltural studies and the discourse of critical pedagogy.” Cultural Studies, Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler, eds. (New York: Routledge), l99-212

Lather, P. (1993). Getting smart: Feminist research and pedagogy with/in
the postmodern. New Your: Routledge.

Leistyna, P., Woodrum, A., & Sherblom, S. (1996). Breaking free: The
transformative power of critical pedagogy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
Educational Review.

McLaren, P. (1995). Critical pedagogy and predatory culture:
Opposistional politics in a postmodern era. New York: Routledge.

McLaren, P. (1997). Revolutionary multiculturalism: Pedagogies of
dissent for the new millennium. New York. Routledge.

McLaren, P. (1998). Revolutionary pedagogy in post-revolutionary times:
Rethinking the political economy of critical education. Educational
Theory, 48, 431-462.

McLaren, P. & Hammer, R.(1989). Critical pedagogy and the postmodern
challenge. Educational Foundations, 3(3), 29-69.

McLaren, P., Hammer, R., Reilly, S., & Sholle, D. (1995). Rethinking
media literacy: A critical pedagogy of representation. New York: Peger
Lang.

Pfeil, F. (1995). White guys: Studies in postmodern domination and
difference. New York: Verso.

Pruyn, M. (1994). Becoming subjects subjects through critical practice:
How students in an elementary classroom critically read and wrote their
world. International Journal of Educational Reform, 3(1), 37-50.

Roman, L., & Eyre, L. (Eds.). (1997). Dangerous territories: Struggles
for difference and equality in education. New York: Routledge.

Shor, I. (1996). When students have power: Negotiating authority in a
critical pedagogy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Sleeter, C., & McLaren, P. (Eds.) (1995). Multicultural education,
critical pedagogy, and the politics of difference. Albany: State
University of New York Press.

Smyth, J. (1989). A critical pedagogy of classroom practice. Journal of
Curriculum Studies, 21(6), 483-501.

Weil, D. (1998). Towards a critical multi-clutural literacy: Theory and
practice for education for liberation. New York: Peter Lang.

Activity One: Laptop Exploration

15 – 30 mins.

One laptop per person; 3 people per group

Task: Find as much information as possible on “Critical Pedagogy” (using the Web) and present your findings to the group.

Limitations: Star, Square, and Circle on cards indicate who gets to use their laptops.

Hand out cards as classmates enter. They are to sit in group l, 2, 3,4, 5

There should be l of each animal in each group.

Part 1

Instructions: Those who have the “turtle,” open computer, select browser. Search for the key words “Critical Pedagogy”

Ping—3 minutes are up.

Hand out second computers

Part 2

Instructions: Those who have the “butterfly,” open computer, select browser, search for definition of “Critical Pedagogy”

Ping—3 minutes are up.

Hand out third set of computers

Part 3

Instructions: Those who have “salmon,” open computer, select browser, find 2 writers of “Critical Pedagogy”

Ping—3 minutes are up.

Activity Two: Cultural Awareness Game (Wambats Activity)

20 mins.

See attached Multicultural Activity sheet

Activity Three: Deconstructing “Valid Knowledge” in Curriculum

15 mins.

Curriculum materials to be deconstructed from one’s own and from certain other situated perspectives.

See attached Deconstructing “Valid Knowledge” sheet