Critical Pedagogy And How It Benefit The Educational System

A forth arguement, critical literacy, exists in small american accedemic communities as oppotititionall material rather than a popular and driving theory. As primarily a marxist idea, it is popular in 3rd world contries used as a means of power and controll over those regions. Seen as a threat to capitalism, it is considered danagerous and will most likely continue be banned from american classrooms for the forseeable future.

A key component in teaching students critical thinking is being able to engage students in the active process of learning, and one can accomplish this through teaching the class by involving relevant topics that students can relate to. This is a main aspect of Acosta’s critical pedagogy curriculum which involves having the student participate in the academic experience. Acosta shows

The theoretical framework of this study was shaped in what is known as critical pedagogy. Critical pedagogy considers how education can provide individuals with tools to better themselves and help create a more equal and fair society. Critical pedagogy can help students stand up and question authority.

Critical pedagogy is looking beyond the surface level of education, instead liberating education. Rather than a transfer of information students use cognitive thinking to truly dissect a topic to its root meaning to truly understand the lesson being taught. Through critical pedagogy we can create a more authentic society opposed to a “static reality” as Freire states, which is an important contributor to developing global citizens. I could relate to this topic because from my experience, when I understand the logic behind a concept I naturally formulate the facts

In today’s current school systems, the question of whether or not schools are correctly teaching students the right curriculum is coming up for debate. In the Article,"Teaching Critical Thinking by Marcia Clemmitt, she goes into extensive research of the U.S. Department of Education’s crisis of standardized testing. Most learning activities include standardized testing which lacks many students to express creative and critical thinking. Critical thinking is defined as the examination and evaluation of ideas, events and arguments in their contexts which introduces students to interrogate assumptions and identifying biases (Clemmitt)Pure critical thinking involves investigating a text more than just memorizing, but to apply theirself in other ways of techniques, meaning schools should stimulate more analytical methods of teaching. This would not only free students from a sheltered test culture,but will allow students to think in a deeper,more passionate way than before.

Many people want a way out of their skin and a way into a new look. The wants of people worldwide varrie and always will be different, depending on the person and their taste. Where there are people worldwide who worry about their complexion and how other people think of them, there are companies worldwide who have a profit to gain. No matter what our make-up might be, we want something better. I can’t stress enough about this subject because I am the same way. I believe there will always be room for improvement. This is something in the human genes that I believe will never change.

In Critical Pedagogy: Notes from the Real World, Joan Wink talks about her experience in teaching at Benson, Arizona. Wink goes on to explain her process in her shifting pedagogy when encountering her new classroom. Wink quickly realizes that she is now, too the learner, in this new setting and must adjust her lessons to fit the needs of the students in her classroom. Wink also begins to understand that although she thought she was prepared with everything she needs to know about teaching there are some practices that must be adjusted, unlearned, and relearned. For Wink, reading and writing became an important aspect in her classroom allowing the students in her classroom to choose what they want to learn and write about. Wink learned that it is important for students to have a safe space, choice, someone that responds to their writing, flexibility, humor, and most importantly to continue to read to improve writing.

Critical literacy involves children to analyse and question texts which may affect their belief and value

That is in the pursuit of examining how politicization and indoctrination into extremist viewpoints has become embedded into education. Hardly objectionable criticisms of education that are as old as education itself are implanted into a revolutionary critical theorist lens. Plutarch in around the year 100AD posseted that, "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." He is describing his misgivings with a situation similar to Freire’s Banking concept. These going on two millennium old criticisms are not original, nor do they convincingly support a revolutionary viewpoint when Freire espouses them anymore than they supported Hellenistic-pantheism when Pultarch espoused them. Yet when these are exposed to students in Freire’s work, many students find themselves personally relating to his analysis of attitudes held by teachers and their harmful modes of behavior on an emotional level, similar to a newspaper horoscope reading “Capricorns will feel especially oppressed by their teachers today due to the alignment of Neptune.” Of course a system of ‘oppressor’ and ‘oppressed’ and the need for revolution is taken part-and-parcel with these surface-level unfalsifiable armchair accusations. In this very class I observe people debating

In seeking how democracy in education and critical pedagogy convey, Carr (2011) points that the simple way to conceive democracy as a synonym of voting, simplifies the way we understand culture and societies. Rather, Carr (2011) posits that democracy shares a space with critical pedagogy to observe multiple ways to describe the human condition, and providing educators and learners opportunities for critical dialogues, allowing the former to be heard and being an active participant of decisions that would influence their further experiences.

According to Dennis Bartels’s article “Critical Thinking Is Best Taught Outside the Classroom”, schools can’t teach critical thinking because they are too busy teaching to standardized tests.

Please use your understanding of critical educational theory to analyse a case study from community and youth work practice.

However, this study also uncovers complications associated with it. Although students learned about the historical and social forces that led to the park’s polluted state, they did not learn to interrogate those forces, as true critical pedagogy promotes. That sort of deep reflection was absent in this curriculum; youth did not challenge inequity or injustice.

Our current society is based on oppression as it privileges certain values while marginalizing others. The school system only teaches basic skills for decoding and understanding printed texts. This approach does not provide children opportunities to challenge the texts and the ideas presented as young children are taught into the dominate discourses in our society. Educators should teach critical literacy, so children can question and challenge texts and contexts. Children need to understand the different ways of reading in order to understand the different meanings behind the texts. Through critical literacy, children can question their own beliefs and values and to understand how ideas and knowledge are socially constructed

Critical communication pedagogy takes a very different approach to education. The critical communication model does away with the idea of the teacher as the expert providing information to the students. Freire says, “The