Critical Pedagogy: Teaching Ourselves How to Teach Critically (80413)
Session Chair: Stephen Sowa
Sunday, 14 July 2024 09:15
Session: Session 1
Room: B07 (Basement)
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
Critical pedagogy--a liberatory theory of education, developed out of strains of neo-Marxian thought--is concerned with forms and systems of institutionalized and personal power in social, cultural and political contexts. Paulo Freire (1972), with whom the term originates, was concerned the effects of a critical theory of teaching and learning that prompts and frees the individual – through inquiry and reflection – to responsible action toward self and other. Henri Giroux (1994, 2011) examines the educational task in light of ethics and the role and effects of critical and cultural critique within traditional education--as a means of transforming teaching, learning and subject matter--in a pedagogical environment that: engages students' personal lives; draws relationships between high and low culture and the everyday; and is open to the risk of inquiry that asks questions of the "other" in order to give voice to positions of marginalization.
This study illuminates the relationship between knowledge, authority and power, mediated through the experience of project-based learning. Understanding these relationships through the medium of a project-as-vehicle for critical teaching, reveals “radically different dialogical interventions in the world” (Torres 1999) and changes the learning transaction. Through examination of case studies featuring project-based learning from a UK polytechnic (Worcester) and US schools (Michigan and Duke), the application of critical pedagogy is shown to create new forms of knowledge, raise questions about relationships between the margins and centres of power and facilitate engagement between learned knowledge and everyday lived experience, thus transforming the learning space.
Authors:
Linda Schwartz, Booth University College, Canada
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Linda Schwartz is a Independent Scholar at Ambrose University in Canada
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