This book introduces,teacher educators, teachers in training, and educational researchers to the evolving field of critical pedagogy. Rather than offering a detailed evaluation of the theoretical controversies currently occupying critical pedagogy, leading critical pedagogy scholar Peter McLaren offers students both an overview of critical pedagogy's major strengths, as well as its limitations. While the book outlines some of the central debates in the field of critical pedagogy-the relationship between race and class, and the question of cultural imperialism lurking in the work of critical educators such as Paulo Freire-it also delineates points of general theoretical agreement and political convergence. Sections of the book sketch out what is at stake in the recent debates most fundamental to critical pedagogy, those that address the primacy of examining race, class, gender, and sexual orientation in relation to the struggle for educational equality. The book also offer descriptions of the key concepts of critical pedagogy such as ideology, hegemony, class struggle, the globalization of capitalism and neoliberalism, and social reproduction and resistance. Ultimately, McLaren presents critical pedagogy in both theory and practice, as both a tool and an application that is fundamentally anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-imperialist as well as democratic and gender balanced.
- ISBN10 0415962218
- ISBN13 9780415962216
- Publish Date 1 December 2009
- Publish Status Withdrawn
- Out of Print 23 April 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 200
- Language English