Enabling critical pedagogy in higher education /
An essential introduction to critical pedagogy for all those working within higher education, re-examining the concept and exploring its practical application at an institutional level, within the curriculum, within assessment, through learning and teaching, and in the spaces in-between.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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St Albans :
Critical Publishing,
2021.
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Colección: | Critical practice in higher education.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Meet the authors and series editors
- Book summary
- Chapter 1 An introduction to critical pedagogy
- What is it?
- Why is it important?
- Why now?
- The structure of the book
- Principles, aims and approaches of critical pedagogy
- Principles
- Education is inherently political
- Knowledge should relate to and develop from the lived experience of participants
- Knowledge should be co-created between all participants in the learning process
- Aims of critical pedagogy
- To develop critical thinkers who create new knowledge
- For people to become aware of their, and others', oppressions
- For people to make connections between personal experiences and wider societal forces
- Approaches in critical pedagogy
- Emphasising the importance of democracy and equality in learning environments
- Emphasising a co-created flexible curriculum using authentic materials, generative themes and finding teachable moments
- Flexible curriculum and using authentic materials
- Generative themes
- Teachable moments
- Emphasising the importance of cultivating hope and symbolic resistance
- Conclusion: how critical pedagogy can be enabled
- a step process
- Step one: change how you teach and your relationship with students
- Step two: push the structure as far as you can and build alliances
- Step three: be seen as a pedagogic expert, internally and externally
- Useful texts
- Chapter 2 Critical pedagogy and curriculum
- Introduction
- Applying critical pedagogy to the curriculum
- The controlling hand of curriculum
- Conclusion
- Useful texts
- Chapter 3 Critical pedagogy and assessment
- Introduction
- Making assessment compatible with critical pedagogy
- Characteristics of authentic assessment within critical pedagogy
- It should be centred on dialogic interactions so that the roles of teacher and learner are shared and all voices are validated
- Foster an integrated approach to theory and practice, or what Freire would term praxis
- theory in action
- It should value and validate the experience students bring to the classroom
- Reinterpret the complex ecology of relationships in the classroom to avoid oppressive power relations
- Create a negotiated curriculum, including assessment, equally owned by teachers and students
- Conclusion
- Useful texts
- Chapter 4 Critical pedagogy and learning and teaching
- Introduction
- De-constructing the lecture
- Respecting the knowledge in the room
- Tutor groups: flipping the flipped classroom
- Deconstructing the conference and the academic seminar
- Conclusion
- Useful texts
- Chapter 5 Critical pedagogy and the spaces in between
- Introduction
- Critiquing the institution
- Power within critical pedagogy groups