Reinventing Critical Pedagogy

Widening the Circle of Anti-Oppression Education

By (author) Cesar Augusto Rossatto, Ricky Lee Allen, Marc Pruyn

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Publication date:

24 October 2006

Length of book:

272 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781461643005

Reinventing Critical Pedagogy offers a fresh perspective from which to read, discuss, and debate recent critical interpretations of schooling and our world at present. The authors build upon past accomplishments of critical pedagogy and critique those elements that contradict the radically democratic orientation of the field. Ultimately, they argue that critical pedagogy needs to welcome a wider representational and ideological base for the oppressed, and that it should do so in a way that makes the field more vital in the preparation for the revolutionary struggles ahead. Reinventing Critical Pedagogy takes a step in that direction because it not only takes to task OexternalO forces such as capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy, but also engages the manifestations of these external forces within critical pedagogy itself.

Chapter 1 The Race Problem in the Critical Pedagogy Community
Chapter 2 Racism without Racists: ‘Killing Me Softly' with Color Blindness
Chapter 3 Violence, Discourse and Dixieland: A Critical Reflection of an Incident Involving Violence against Black Youth
Chapter 4 Latino Youths at the Crossroads of Sameness and Difference: Engaging Border Theory to Create Critical Epistemologies on Border Identity
Chapter 5 Education as a State of Exception: Unraveling the Heart of the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Chapter 6 Some Reflections on Critical Pedagogy in an Age of Global Empire
Chapter 7 Youth Alienation in Everyday Life: The Promise of Critical Pedagogy
Chapter 8 Is Religion Still the Opium of the People? Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and the Commitment to Social Transformation
Chapter 9 On Language of Possibility: Revisiting Critical Pedagogy
Chapter 10 Social Justice Requires a Revolution of Everyday Life
Chapter 11 Mathematical Power: Exploring Critical Pedagogy in Mathematics and Statistics
Chapter 12 Teaching Ecocide: Junk Science and the Myth of Premature Extinction in Environmental Science Textbooks
Chapter 13 Hooters Pedagogy: Gender in Late Capitalism
Chapter 14 The Matrix of Freirean Pedagogy, Time and Cultural Literacies
Chapter 15 Generating Hope, Creating Change, Searching for Community: Stories of Resistance against Globalization at the U.S./Mexico Border

This book is a long overdue and important contribution to the field of critical pedagogy. Moreover, the mix of new and established scholars and diversity of topics makes this an ideal text for classroom use. Reinventing Critical Pedagogy is destined to invoke dialogue, controversy, and contested conversations, not only helping to reinvent critical pedagogy but also to reignite it!