Critical Pedagogy and Social Change: Critical Analysis on the Language of Possibility (Critical Social Thought)
By Seehwa Cho.
Description
At its core, the main goal of critical pedagogy is deceptively simpleāto construct schools and education as agents of change. While noble and ambitious, it is not always realistic in a climate of increased commodification, privatization of schooling, and canned curriculum. By assuming rather than articulating its own possibilities, critical pedagogy literature itself is often its own worst enemy in its call for transformation. With such challenges from both within and without, is the idea of liberatory pedagogy for social change out of reach or can critical educators really achieve the rath...
ISBN(s)
0415886112, 9780415886116