Becoming A Critical Educator
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Becoming A Critical Educator
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Author : Patricia H. Hinchey
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2004
Becoming A Critical Educator written by Patricia H. Hinchey and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Education categories.
Many American educators are all too familiar with disengaged students, disenfranchised teachers, sanitized and irrelevant curricula, inadequate support for the neediest schools and students, and the tyranny of standardizing testing. This text invites teachers and would-be teachers unhappy with such conditions to consider becoming critical educators - professionals dedicated to creating schools that genuinely provide equal opportunity for all children. Assuming little or no background in critical theory, chapters address several essential questions to help readers develop the understanding and resolve necessary to become change agents. Why do critical theorists say that education is always political? How do traditional and critical agendas for schools differ? Which agenda benefits whose children? What classroom and policy changes does critical practice require? What risks must change agents accept? Resources point readers toward opportunities to deepen their understanding beyond the limits of these pages.
Becoming Critical Teacher Educators
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Author : Julie Ellison Justice
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-06-26
Becoming Critical Teacher Educators written by Julie Ellison Justice and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-26 with Education categories.
The personal and professional are woven together in this collection of scholarly narratives by teacher educators who share their early critical experiences and model teaching practices to support continued resistance and possibilities in teacher education. Each chapter suggests practical tools and encourages readers to reflect on their own journeys of becoming transformational teacher educators.
The Practical Critical Educator
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Author : Karyn Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-06-10
The Practical Critical Educator written by Karyn Cooper and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-10 with Education categories.
I am delighted to have the opportunity to write this foreword for Karyn Cooper’s and Robert White’s splendid and compelling edited text on The Practical Critical Educator. Critical practice in education is grounded in two bodies of thought and action: critical theory and critical pedagogy. Drawing on classical Marxism and its articulation of how oppression and injustice arose through capitalism’s economic exploitation of labour, critical theories of society took a cultural turn in the writings of Adorno and Horkheimer, European Jewish refugees who fled to America, where they articulated how the power relations and oppressive forces of capitalism expressed themselves in the alienating symbolic forces of culture, music and art. When booming demographics and an economic surplus fuelled the student movement of the late 60s, and in to the 70s, in many Western nations, new forms of cultural Marxism were added to this body of critical theory, extending beside but also far beyond the classical Marxist preoccupations with economic equalities of social class. British writers, such as the articulate and elegant cultural Marxist Raymond Williams, revived and refined the “lost” work of Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci from the 1920s, and his concern with the influence of what he called hegemony – the force through which ruling classes could maintain existing structures of domination by defining, through language, media and culture, what was normal, natural, true, beautiful and defensible, and what was eccentric, unreasonable, or unworthy of serious consideration.
Becoming Critical
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Author : Wilfred Carr
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
Becoming Critical written by Wilfred Carr and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Education categories.
First published in 1986. There is now a growing movement to extend the professionalism of teachers by providing them with greater opportunities to engage in curriculum theorizing and educational research. The purpose of this book is to offer a rationale by outlining a philosophical justification for the view that teachers have a special role as researchers and that the most plausible way to construe educational research is as a form of critical social science.
Becoming A Critically Reflective Teacher
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Author : Stephen D. Brookfield
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2017-01-18
Becoming A Critically Reflective Teacher written by Stephen D. Brookfield and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-18 with Education categories.
A practical guide to the essential practice that builds better teachers. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher is the landmark guide to critical reflection, providing expert insight and practical tools to facilitate a journey of constructive self-critique. Stephen Brookfield shows how you can uncover and assess your assumptions about practice by viewing them through the lens of your students' eyes, your colleagues' perceptions, relevant theory and research, and your own personal experience. Practicing critical reflection will help you... Align your teaching with desired student outcomes See your practice from new perspectives Engage learners via multiple teaching formats Understand and manage classroom power dynamics Model critical thinking for your students Manage the complex rhythms of diverse classrooms This fully revised second edition features a wealth of new material, including new chapters on critical reflection in the context of social media, teaching race and racism, leadership in a critically reflective key, and team teaching as critical reflection. In addition, all chapters have been thoroughly updated and expanded to align with today's classrooms, whether online or face-to-face, in large lecture formats or small groups. In his own personal voice Stephen Brookfield draws from over 45 years of experience to illustrate the clear benefits of critical reflection. Assumptions guide practice and only when we base our actions on accurate assumptions will we achieve the results we want. Educators with the courage to challenge their own assumptions in an effort to improve learning are the invaluable role models our students need. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher provides the foundational information and practical tools that help teachers reach their true potential.
Critical Pedagogy And Teacher Education In The Neoliberal Era
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Author : Susan L. Groenke
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2009-07-30
Critical Pedagogy And Teacher Education In The Neoliberal Era written by Susan L. Groenke and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-30 with Education categories.
Susan L. Groenke and J. Amos Hatch It does not feel safe to be critical in university-based teacher education programs right now, especially if you are junior faculty. In the neoliberal era, critical teacher education research gets less and less funding, and professors can be denied tenure or lose their jobs for speaking out against the status quo. Also, we know that the pedagogies critical teacher educators espouse can get beginning K–12 teachers fired or shuffled around, especially if their students’ test scores are low. This, paired with the resistance many of the future teachers who come through our programs—predominantly White, middle-class, and happy with the current state of affairs—show toward critical pedagogy, makes it seem a whole lot easier, less risky, even smart not to “do” critical pedagogy at all. Why bother? We believe this book shows we have lots of reasons to “bother” with critical pe- gogy in teacher education, as current educational policies and the neoliberal discourses that vie for the identities of our own local contexts increasingly do not have education for the public good in mind. This book shows teacher educators taking risks, seeking out what political theorist James Scott has called the “small openings” for resistance in the contexts that mark teacher education in the early twenty-first century.
Exploring Criticality In Management Education
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Author : Judith Anne Breen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Exploring Criticality In Management Education written by Judith Anne Breen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
This research explores how criticality is perceived, experienced and translated into the everyday practices of critical management educators. Fifteen semi- structured interviews and two observations of practice of key scholars in the field were conducted to answer the following research questions I) What factors have contributed to the adoption of this management philosophy by critical management educators? 2) How is criticality perceived by critical management educators? 3) How does this alternative management philosophy translate into the professional practice of critical management educators? When we question what and how we teach it has the potential to open up new questions to be explored and insights to be revealed. This research has exposed a side of management education that is ever present in the philosophy and practice of critical educators. The research found that there was a common theme about criticality relating to questioning taken for granted assumptions about management and its practices. However, distinctions were made between those whose interests where more theoretically, politically or practically oriented. From the findings two critical educator types emerged. These were the critical experientialists and the critical traditionalists. The results of the study revealed that a) critical educators are oriented towards either the content or process of their practice b) the educators who focused more on the process of their practice used action learning as a teaching methodology c) some of the challenges of teaching in this way are to be expected and part of the learning process d) the role of the tutor is paramount in creating the environment both conceptually and physically where critical learning can evolve. This research has provided an understanding of the critical classroom with different educators' backgrounds, conditions of practice and perceptions. In the context of current debates in the field of business such an exploration is both timely and relevant for today's educators, students, managers and ultimately society.
Useful Theory
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Author : Rebecca A. Goldstein
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2007
Useful Theory written by Rebecca A. Goldstein and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Education categories.
One of the greatest challenges for students of critical education theory is making the connection between the theory and its practical application. Critical education theory is personal and political; it can be uncomfortable and freeing, while at the same time being challenging and transforming. Ultimately, critical educational theory is useful. Written in accessible language, this edited collection presents readers with different views of and insights into the topic and illustrates how to connect theory and practice to create a different vision of public education. This is the perfect text for undergraduate and graduate students of education.
The Routledge International Handbook Of Critical Education
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Author : Michael W. Apple
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-02-17
The Routledge International Handbook Of Critical Education written by Michael W. Apple and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-17 with Education categories.
The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education is the first authoritative reference work to provide an international analysis of the relationship between power, knowledge, education, and schooling. Rather than focusing solely on questions of how we teach efficiently and effectively, contributors to this volume push further to also think critically about education's relationship to economic, political, and cultural power. The various sections of this book integrate into their analyses the conceptual, political, pedagogic, and practical histories, tensions, and resources that have established critical education as one of the most vital and growing movements within the field of education, including topics such as: social movements and pedagogic work critical research methods for critical education the politics of practice and the recreation of theory the freirian legacy. With a comprehensive introduction by Michael W. Apple, Wayne Au, and Luis Armando Gandin, along with thirty-five newly-commissioned pieces by some of the most prestigious education scholars in the world, this Handbook provides the definitive statement on the state of critical education and on its possibilities for the future.
Life In Schools
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Author : Peter McLaren
language : en
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Release Date : 2007
Life In Schools written by Peter McLaren and has been published by Allyn & Bacon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Education categories.
This text is a provocative investigation of the political, social, and economic factors underlying classroom practices, offering a unique introduction to the contemporary field of critical pedagogy. Life in Schools features excerpts from the author's best-selling work, Cries from the Corridor: The New Suburban Ghetto. The text provokes analytic discussion of social problems and a theoretical framework for formulating potential solutions (Parts III & IV). It also includes a new discussion of race and class, a chapter on the social construction of whiteness, and a new chapter that challenges current domestic and foreign policies of the current White House administration (including the No Child Left Behind Act) and their impact upon American public schooling.