1st Edition

Critical Pedagogy in Hong Kong Classroom Stories of Struggle and Hope

By Carlos Soto Copyright 2020
200 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book chronicles the author’s application of critical pedagogy in Hong Kong secondary schools serving students from working-class families of South Asian heritage, so-called ‘ethnic minorities’ in the local context. Soto used concepts such as banking pedagogy, generative themes, liberatory dialogue, and transformative resistance, to first understand students’ school, online, and community... Read more

List of Figures and Tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Prologue



1. The Students, the System, and the Teacher
2. Critical Pedagogy: Rebirth in Theory and in Practice 
3. Critical Ethnography and Dilemmas of a Teacher-Researcher
4. Alienation, Pain, and Possibility at NTS School
5. Curriculum at ISS: Setting the Stage for Resistance
6. The Complexities of Dialogue 
7. Towards Critical Hope



Appendix
References
Index 

Biography

Carlos Soto is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. Previously, he spent a decade working in the public and non-profit education sectors in the United States.