Critical Pedagogy and the Everyday Classroom

This book explores the applications of Critical Pedagogy to actual classroom situations. Written in a concise and lucid form, this book takes the theories behind Critical Pedagogy and illustrates them at work in common classroom environments.

Critical Pedagogy addresses the shortcomings of mainstream educational theory and practice and promotes the humanization of teacher and student. Where Critical Pedagogy is often treated as a discourse of academics in universities, this book explores the applications of Critical Pedagogy to actual classroom situations. Written in a straight-forward, concise, and lucid form by an American high school teacher, drawing examples from literature, film, and, above all, the everyday classroom, this book is meant to provoke thought in teachers, students and education activists as we transform our classrooms into democratic sites.

From grading to testing, from content area disciplines to curriculum planning and instruction, from the social construction of knowledge to embodied cognition, this book takes the theories behind Critical Pedagogy and illustrates them at work in common classroom environments.

A concise introduction and exploration of Critical Pedagogy Lucid and clearly written, drawing on real world examples of the application of Critical Pedagogy in actual primary and secondary classrooms A complement to the more theoretically-grounded Critical Pedagogy books A critique of contemporary educational theory and practice

Inhalt
Critical Pedagogy: Possibilities and Limit Situations.- The Architecture of Power: Philosophy and Education.- The Architecture of Power (II): Mental Health and Education.- Critical Pedagogy in the Everyday Classroom.- Critical Pedagogy Across the Curriculum.- Stepping Across: Aristocratic Elitism Versus Democratic Faith.