Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction 2nd Edition (Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series)

Critical pedagogy refers to the means and methods of testing and attempting to change the structures of schools that allow inequities. It is a cultural-political tool that takes seriously the notion of human differences particularly those related to race class and gender. Critical pedagogy seeks to release the oppressed and unite people in a shared language of critique struggle and hope to end various forms of human suffering. In this revised edition Kanpol takes the pre- and in-service educators along some initial steps to becoming critical pedagogists. As before university professors and public school teachers alike will learn how to address their own prophetic commitments to belief and faith in the fight against despair institutional chaos oppression death of spirit and exile.