Becoming a critical educator : defining a classroom identity, designing a critical pedagogy /
"This text invites teachers and would-be teachers 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 essential questions to help re...
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New York :
P. Lang,
©2004.
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| Series: | Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ;
v. 224. |
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Table of Contents:
- I: Beginning the journey: thinking about our thinking
- 1. Starting points: assumptions and alternatives
- Why theory and philosophy matter: from the abstract to the practical
- Developing a personal stance
- Historical possibilities: traditional goals
- An alternative agenda: critical goals
- The why and how of praxis
- 2. Understanding our own thinking: developing critical consciousness
- Issues of race
- Issues of gender and sexual orientation
- The complexity of cultural conditioning
- 3. Expanding our thinking: Learning about "other people's children"
- Who are America's schoolchildren?
- Poverty, race, and schoolchildren
- Other people's children: educational history and legacies
- Other people's children: current realities
- II: Considering destinations: truth, consequences, and the critical vision
- 4. In the interest of everyone but kids: the politics of contemporary educational reform
- Themes in national political rhetoric
- Theme 1: Education as workforce preparation
- Theme 2: Education is failing
- Rhetoric and realities
- Why produce a "manufactured crisis"?
- Corporations on the crisis bandwagon
- Corporation in the schoolhouse
- Staging for twenty-first-century reforms
- 5. Consequences of contemporary educational reform: winners and losers
- Standards and high-stakes testing
- The winners
- The losers
- Moves toward privatization
- The winners
- the losers
- 6. Critical alternatives for schools and teachers
- Critical alternatives: redefining democracy and democratic goals
- Critical alternatives: schooling for participative citizenship
- Education as critical inquiry for social change
- Education in service to the many
- Critical alternatives: teachers pursuing social justice
- Teachers who understand social power arrangements
- Teachers who respect the other
- Teachers as public intellectuals
- Teachers as risk-takers
- Parting thoughts
- Information and allies for the critical educator.