1st Edition
Engaging Critical Pedagogy in Education Global Phenomenon, Local Praxis
Presenting cutting-edge research from around the world, this book demonstrates how critical pedagogy is shaped by social-political contexts and ideological constructions of knowledge and power.
The edited collection brings together a global author team using critical pedagogy to synthesise political and theoretical ambitions with the complex realities of classroom practice. The book addresses two key questions: what does critical pedagogy look like in educative work with young people around the globe? And how can critical praxis enacted in schools and classrooms push the core tenets of critical pedagogy so that they are more responsive to the complex power relations of the real world? Bringing together chapters that create a nuanced understanding of some of the challenges involved in the intersection of ideologies, systems and institutions, the authors offer a set of resources which respond to claims that critical pedagogy is often little more than emancipatory rhetoric with limited practical application.
Spanning almost two decades of pedagogical thinking, practice, outreach, community development, and activism, this robust volume will be of great interest to researchers and postgraduate students investigating critical education, curriculum, creative thinking and pedagogies.
Introduction
Critical Pedagogy in Education: A theory in search of praxis
Fida Sanjakdar and Michael. W Apple
PART 1: Global Assemblages of Critical Pedagogy: Knowledge, Power and Education
1. New Culture Wars: Weaponizing Public Education in the Service of Rightwing Politics
Ramin Farahmandpur and Laurie Wimmer
2. Interrogating ‘desire’ in teaching English for social justice and inclusion in Hong Kong schools
Margaret M. Lo
3. Nomadic pedagogies and possibilities for precarious times: Taking a stance against conformity in Australian Initial Teacher Education
Tanya Davies
4. Reviving a Pedagogy of Knowledge: Decoloniality Content Analysis of Media Expectations for Banned Antiracist Books
Kelly Deits Cutler and Daniel D. Liou
5. Race, class, and interculturality: insights from qualitative longitudinal research
Caroline Mahoney
PART 2: Local and Contemporary Praxis of Critical Pedagogy: Learning as Engagement
6. From Master Narratives to Black Unicorns: Gifted Black Girls in STEM
Olanrewaju T. Oriowo
7. Know better, do better: Moving beyond a whitewashed environmental education towards a praxis of critical environmental education using critical pedagogy
Nini Hayes and Natalie Baloy
8. Out of the Closet, Into the Classroom: Sexuality and Visual Critical Pedagogy in Academic Spaces
Ya’aara Gil-Glazer
9. Educating Agonistic Hope for the Practice of Radical Democracy: An Experience in Physical Education Teaching Education
Daniel Martos-Garcia and Wenceslao Garcia-Puchades
10. Teaching Ethical Understanding in the Australian Curriculum: Opportunities to promote critical pedagogies in the classroom
Fida Sanjakdar
11. Criticality and Tiktok: Towards Curricular Engagement in the Philippines
Jocelyn A.S. Navera, Christian Go and Paolo Nino Valdez
12. Building a ‘thick democracy’: The experience of Adolfina Diefenthaler school in Southern Brazil
Luis Armando Gandin and Joice Lamb
13. Caged Birds Singing: Interrogating Music Education and Critical Pedagogy
Frank Abrahams
Biography
Fida Sanjakdar is an Associate Professor in Critical Curriculum and Pedagogical studies in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.
Michael W. Apple is the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, US, and the Madison and Distinguished Professorial Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK.
