Critical Pedagogy

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses how critical pedagogy involves learning from the practices of the past, and improving upon them according to what proves to work best in the classroom. The paper reports how the transformational model of education, is a good example of critical pedagogy, as it involves changing classroom practices according to what is experimentally determined to work best. The paper further discusses how the model has become integrated not only in the teaching process, but in the way students and teachers experience life and learning outside of the classroom as well.

Outline:
Introduction
Service Learning Action Plan
Critical Pedagogy and State Standards
Rationale and Conclusion

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"The transformational education model has at its basis transformation or change in both the academic, social and personal domains. This means that students are transformed in such a way that they meet the challenges of the world after high school with the necessary tools to do so successfully. The current California state standards for education are then also particularly focused upon the holistic rather than the purely academic aspect of education. The transformational model will then be particularly useful in implementing these standards.
Specifically, the content standards for grade ten in the subjects of World History, Culture and Geography in terms of the modern world include the study of major historical turning points.
History-Social Science Content Standards. The development of democratic ideas is studied, along with international relations. Students are made aware of the fact that democracy is often achieved at a high price and not practiced everywhere. These issues are then related to the students' own historical, geographic, political, economic, and cultural contexts. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Lea, Virginia & Judy Helfand, eds. (2004). Identifying Race and Transforming Whiteness in the Classroom. New York: Peter Lang.
• Martin, Brian. (2006). Critical teaching and research. Chapter 13 of Tied Knowledge: Power in Higher Education. Available online: http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/98tk/tk13.html
• Stephens, Christy (2005). Paulo Freire. Critical Pedagogy on the Web. http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/~stevens/critped/freire.htm
• Wink, Joan. (2005). Critical Pedagogy: Notes from the real world. Boston: Pearson Education Inc.

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