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Critical pedagogy is an educational philosophy that encourages critical thinking and practices that can transform oppressive institutions. It combines education and critical theory. The key principles of critical pedagogy include promoting liberty education, understanding class struggle, and naming issues like hegemony and social injustice. According to critical pedagogy, the educational process should empower students and teachers to question societal structures and hierarchies. Teachers adopt the role of transformative intellectuals who help students become cultural producers. Critical pedagogy aims to increase social consciousness and involvement in transforming injustice, especially regarding issues of diversity in classrooms.

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Critical Pedagogy

Critical pedagogy is an educational philosophy that encourages critical thinking and practices that can transform oppressive institutions. It combines education and critical theory. The key principles of critical pedagogy include promoting liberty education, understanding class struggle, and naming issues like hegemony and social injustice. According to critical pedagogy, the educational process should empower students and teachers to question societal structures and hierarchies. Teachers adopt the role of transformative intellectuals who help students become cultural producers. Critical pedagogy aims to increase social consciousness and involvement in transforming injustice, especially regarding issues of diversity in classrooms.

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Critical Pedagogy

in managing diversity in the Classrooms

Shishir P. Aryal
Faculty of Social Sciences and Education, NOU
EDEDS723: Managing Diversity in Education
Dr. Radheshyam Thakur
May 27, 2020
Outlines
Meaning and Matter of Diversity

Diversity: Impacts

CP: Concept and Definition

CP: Introduction

CP: Major Principles

Major Critical Critique of Education

CP: Education Process, Teachers, Students

Managing Diversity
Meaning and Matters in Diversity
Definitions Dimensions
• Diversity : "otherness" and
"different from our own"
• Diversity : as assets to the
Primary
groups and organizations.
(Guion, 1999)
• Diversity : define each of
us as individuals Tertiary Secondary
• Diversity is a subjective
phenomenon
Diversity: IMPACTS in Classrooms

Student
– Teacher
Classroom
Student Curriculu -
Learning m
Manageme
s Student nt
Relationsh s
ip
Critical Pedagogy: Concept and Definition
Critical Pedagogy
CP is a transformation- CP… encourages
based approach to
education. (Abraham, critical thinking
2014) and promotes
practices that
CP is a philosophy of CP is a philosophy of
education and social
have the potential
education and social
movement that movement that to transform
combines education developed and applied oppressive
with critical theory concepts from critical institutions or
theory and related
(definition.net) traditions to the field social relations
of education and the (Breunig, 2005,
study of culture
p.109).
Critical Pedagogy: Introduction
Understanding the disrupting power imbalances that are
present in educational setting especially connected to issue of
race and class or with other diversity
• Origin
Critical Social theory, Frankfurt School of Thought, Michel
Foucault, Marxism, Critical Race Theory,
Major Contributors
W.E.B. DuBois, Carter Woodson, Paulo Freire, Bell hooks,
Henry Giroux, Joe Kincheloe, Peter McLaren, Antonia
Darder,
Critical Pedagogy
Critical pedagogy is a teaching philosophy that invites educators to
encourage students to critique structures of power and oppression.
It is rooted in critical theory, which involves becoming aware of
and questioning the societal status quo. In critical pedagogy, a
teacher uses their enlightenment to encourage students to question
and challenge inequalities that exist in families, schools, and
societies.
This educational philosophy is considered progressive and even
radical by some because of the way it critiques structures that are
often taken for granted. If this is an approach that sounds like it is
right for you and your students, keep reading. 
Critical Pedagogy: Major Principles
• Liberty Education
• Class Struggle
• Cultural Capital
• Reading the World vs. Reading the Word
• Naming : Hegemony and Social injustice
• Legitimization, Reification, Fragmentation, Dissimulation
• Cognizable Objects
• Generative Themes
CP the Educational Process
• Pedagogy : development of knowledge by the students
themselves. (Joldersma,1999).
• Right to ask questions. The teacher listens to students
(Muhammad, 1999).
• Students are Closely Equal to their teachers (Elias. 1976).
• Education in CP is a Libertarian Process (Foley, 2007).
• Five steps; describing the content of discussion, defining the
problem, personalizing the problem, discussing the problem,
and discussing the alternatives of the problem. (Nixon-Ponder
CP and the Teachers
• Teachers: Problem Posers. (Dewey, 1963)
• Teacher must empower Their students by raising their AWARENESS
(Kincheloe and McLaren, 1994)
• Teachers are Transformative Intellectuals (Sadeghi, 2008) : Learn
from students, appreciate their viewpoints and to take part in the
dialogical process.
• Teachers enable students to become Cultural Producers (Giroux, 1997)
• Classroom Experiences, with the help of the teachers (Paulo
Freire,1998)
• Teachers have a Central Role in CP (Degener, 2001).
CP and the Students
• Students: active participants in that together with the teacher they
correct the curricula and that they share their ideas and learn to
challenge assumptions (Giroux (1997).
• Offer good reasons for their ideas and can correct their own and
others’ procedures (Lipman, 1988).
• Engage in social criticism in order to create a public sphere in which
citizens can exercise power over their own lives and learning (Giroux,
1992).
• Reflect on their commonsense knowledge, they learn how to
transform their lives. (Degener, 2001)
CP : Diversity in the Classrooms
• CP increases the consciousness about the injustice and to involve in transforming it.

• CP is beyond just critical thinking, its major emphasis is on


transformation.
• Every educator fulfilling their duty as organic intellectuals, developing
together with their pupils/students the ability that will help for looking
critically to the present and for transforming society into the better.
• CP may not be interesting for all : not a part of their assignment. OR,
importance of critical pedagogy for their pupils/students.
• Students have the right to be introduced to it and participate in the
process of developing skills for critical understanding of the reality of their
society.
Management of Diversity in Classroom
EI DECLARATION ON PROFESSIONAL
ETHICS : Preamble 7 (e) combat all
forms of racism, bias or
discrimination in education due to
gender, marital status, sexual
orientation, age, religion, political
opinion, social or economic status,
national or ethnic origin;
Declaration: commitment of teachers
to public (Article 1), Students (2),
colleagues (3), Management
Personnel (4), Parents (5),
Commitment of community to
Teachers (6).
Conclusion
References
Abraham, G. Y. (2014), Critical Pedagogy: Origin, Vision, Action & Consequences, Karlstads Universitet.
Bell, Q. W. (2019). An immanent Critique of Critical Pedagogy, Educaional Theory. Vol. 69 (3)
Darder, A. (2003). Teaching as an Act of Love: Reflections on Paulo Freire and His Contribution to Our Lives and Our Work, in
The Critical Pedagogy Reader (ed. Darder, A., Baltodano, M. & Torres, R.D., 2003). New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group.
Freire, P. (1974). Education for Critical Consciousness. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group.
Freire, P. (1998). Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, democracy, and Civic courage. New York: Continuum International Publishing
Group.
Giroux, H. A. & Giroux, S. S. (2006). Challenging Neoliberalism’s New World Order: The Promise of Critical Pedagogy.
Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies, 6(1), 21-32.
Guion, L. A. (1999). The diversity challenge: Programming in Extension in the new millennium. North Carolina Cooperative
Extension, NC State University.
Kincheloe, J. L. (2007). Critical pedagogy in the Twenty-first century. Evolution for survivial. In McLaren, P. & Kincheloe, J. L.
(Ed.), Critical Pedagogy, Where Are We Now? New York: Peter Lang.
Lynch, M (2019). How to Implement Critical Pedagogy into your classroom. The EDVOCATE.
McArthur, J. (2010). Achieving Social Justice within and through Higher Education: Challenge for Critical Pedagogy. Teaching
in Higher Education, 15(5), 493-504.
Stirling, J. and McGloin, C. (2015). Critical pedagogy and social inclusion policy in Australian higher education. identifying the
disjunctions. Radical pedagogy, 12 (2),
Major Critical Critiques of Education
Critical Theory Three Types of Curricula
 Power is concentrated in the  Mainstream Curriculum –
production of knowledge. Curriculum that is explicit, Clear
 Content areas seen as  Hidden Curriculum – Messages
disconnected from power and that are implicit, unspoken
as a result are viewed as  Null Curriculum – Message that
neutral. are silenced, omitted, or just
 Subject area preserve simply not included. These also
are critical views of the
hegemony of socioeconomic
mainstream and hidden curricula
classes and race
Major Critical Critiques of Education
Conscientization: a process of developing consciousness where the consciousness
should have the power to transform reality. During this process the reality will be
objectified to the oppressed as will as oppressor.

• Dialogical method: dialogue is not just about deepening understanding – but was
part of making a difference in the world or recreating the world. Dialogue in itself is
a co-operative activity of student and teacher. Critical view and problem posing acts
are integral to the method. Through this process student and teacher together co-
create the knowledge.

• Praxis: reflection and action directed at the structures to be transformed. It is an


insistence on situating educational activity in the lived experience of participants.
This should not be limited on discovery and creating discourse it should be linked
with action. when the reflection and action go together, only than it is Praxis.
Major Critical Critiques of Education
One of the key objectives of critical pedagogy is to allow students to gain
the necessary social skills and to allow them to actively participate in a
transformed inclusive democratic community.
• When a person can identify the sources of power, recognize his/her
own position in relation to power and understand the political nature of
actions and can develop his/her own social actions.
• Critical pedagogy seeks to give those who have been excluded from
power the right and ability to have an input into civic life. (Kincheloe,
2007)
CP: Characteristics
Tries to bring critical theories in to education • Lessen human suffering •
Help understand political nature of education • Empower students and
help them help themselves. • Liberate students from oppression (anti-
oppressive). • Anti-colonial education • Indigenous knowledge based •
Make student critically conscious • Rejection of economic determinism •
Identifying sources of power • Understanding the politics of knowledge
• Instead of Banking System of Education prefer dialogic method with
problem-posing model of education • Understand the hegemonic nature
of power • Change student-teacher traditional relations • Develop
teachers as researchers • Promote justice and equality in education

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