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Critical Thinking and Critical Pedagogy: Relations, Differences, and Limits
Thomas S. Popkewitz,Lynn Fendler +1 more
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Two literatures have shaped much of the writing in the educational foundations over the past two decades: Critical Thinking and Critical Pedagogy as mentioned in this paper. And each has sought to reach and influence particular groups of educators through workshops, lectures, and pedagogical texts.Abstract:
Two literatures have shaped much of the writing in the educational foundations over the past two decades: Critical Thinking and Critical Pedagogy. Each has its textual reference points, its favored authors, and its desired audiences. Each invokes the term "critical" as a valued educational goal: urging teachers to help students become more skeptical toward commonly accepted truisms. Each says, in its own way, "Do not let yourself be deceived." And each has sought to reach and influence particular groups of educators, at all levels of schooling, through workshops, lectures, and pedagogical texts. They share a passion and sense of urgency about the need for more critically oriented classrooms. Yet with very few exceptions these literatures do not discuss one another. Is this because they propose conflicting visions of what "critical" thought entails? Are their approaches to pedagogy incompatible? Might there be moments of insight that each can offer the other? Do they perhaps share common limitations, which through comparison become more apparent? Are there other ways to think about becoming "critical" that stand outside these traditions, but which hold educational significance? These are the questions motivating this essay.read more
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Education for critical consciousness
TL;DR: The Pedagogy of the Oppressed as mentioned in this paper is the main statement of Freire's revolutionary method of education, which takes the life situation of the learner as its starting point and the raising of consciousness and the overcoming of obstacles as its goals.
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Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
TL;DR: For centuries knowledge meant proven knowledge, proven either by the power of the intellect or by the evidence of the senses as discussed by the authors. But the notion of proven knowledge was questioned by the sceptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.
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Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy
TL;DR: The critical pedagogy, as represented in this article, has developed along a highly abstract and Utopian line which does not necessarily sustain the daily life of students, and this line has been criticised by Ellsworth.