CRITICAL PEDAGOGY IN URBAN SCHOOLING: A GUIDE FOR CLASSROOM PRAXIS

This paper explores concepts and theories in the tradition of critical pedagogy as they relate to teaching practices in contemporary American urban public schooling. Objectives for critical pedagogies are discussed and applied to various aspects of teaching and education, including urban schools and school systems as problematical institutions; establishing a healthy classroom climate and learning community; creating a learning partnership with students; posing-problems for study; generating ideas through collaborative dialogue; guiding inquiry and critical thinking; providing ongoing and authentic assessment; and the imperatives of ethical values, ideology, and multiple perspectives in critical teaching praxis. Critical educational scholarship informs teaching and learning in schools to provide liberating opportunities to achieve critical and academic literacies. Theories of liberation, freedom, democracy, justice, power, oppression, transformation, community-building, humanization, authority, dialogue, agency, instructional ideology, social reproduction, standards, curriculum, culture, learning, thinking, questioning, literacy, assessment, and pedagogy are explored from critical perspectives and discussed as they are brought to bear on classroom teaching and learning in urban K-12 schools.

Grantor dc:publisher

Temple University. Libraries

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Croll, Joshua Eric

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Keith, Novella Zett

Committee member dc:contributor.committeemember

• Jordan, Will J.

• Pedagogy
• Education
• Education, Secondary
• Critical Pedagogy
• Inquiry-based Learning
• Liberatory Education
• Praxis
• Urban Education
• Urban Teaching

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Language dc:language.iso

eng

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864885794

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oai:scholarshare.temple.edu:20.500.12613/1026