Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a ‘Post-Critical’ Climate: The Return to Freirean Thinking

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Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a ‘Post-Critical’ Climate: The Return to Freirean Thinking

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This title provides a reflection and reevaluation on Freire's central principles of pedagogy and praxis. "Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate" provides an urgent reflection on Freire's work, in particular his central principles of pedagogy and praxis offering a variety of critical responses from philosophical, sociological and egalitarian perspectives. The editors explore whether Freire's revolutionary work has stood the test of time and it's relevance to educational discourses today - discourses that frequently contest the ontological and historical aspects of human development. While Freire's work emerged as a response to the problem of providing a transformative educational praxis for justice and equality within a specific cultural and economic milieu, "Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate " seeks to explore the value and possibilities of transformative praxis in perpetually diverse educational settings and within an increasingly divided globalised world. By building on the earlier emancipatory approach of Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", it creates an international conversation between academics, educational practitioners and community activists for a new generation.

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Foundations of Critical Race Theory in Education (Critical Educator)

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The emergence of Critical Race Theory (CRT) marked an important point in the history of racial politics in the legal academy and the broader conversation about race and racism in the United States. More recently, CRT has proven an important analytic tool in the field of education, offering critical perspectives on race, and the causes, consequences and manifestations of race, racism, inequity, and the dynamics of power and privilege in schooling. This groundbreaking anthology is the first to pull together both the foundational writings in the field and more recent scholarship on the cultural and racial politics of schooling. A comprehensive introduction provides an overview of the history and tenets of CRT in education. Each section then seeks to explicate ideological contestation of race in education and to create new, alternative accounts. In so doing, this landmark publication not only documents the progress to date of the CRT movement, it acts to further spur developments in education.

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Critical Social Issues in American Education: Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education)

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This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It provides a focus and a conceptual framework for thinking about education in light of these issues. Readers are exposed to the thinking of some of the best and most insightful social and educational commentators.

Critical Social Issues in American Education: Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World, Third Edition, is intended to work on two levels. First, it helps readers to develop an awareness of how education is connected to the wider social structures of cultural, political, and economic life. Second, it encourages not only a critical examination of our present social reality but also a serious discussion of alternatives--of what a transformed society and educational process might look like.

The editors' goal is to deliberately engage readers in connecting the work of teachers to an ethically committed, politically charged pedagogy. The assumption on which they base the text is that educators must see their work as inextricably linked to the broader conflicts, stresses, and crises of the social world--it is not otherwise possible to make sense of what is happening educationally. What happens in school, or as part of the educational experience, reflects, expresses, and mediates profound questions about the direction and nature of the society we inhabit.

The text is organized thematically into five sections, which address, respectively, social justice and democracy; consumerism, culture, and public education; marginality and difference; moral and spiritual perspectives on education; and globalization and education. Each section is preceded by a brief essay that introduces the readings.

This Third Edition includes many new readings and addresses issues that have more recently emerged as especially significant--such as concerns about the implications of globalization and the post 9/11 world, commercialism, violence, and the ever-increasing influence of high stakes testing.

This compelling text is relevant for a wide range of courses in educational foundations, educational policy, curriculum studies, and multicultural education that address the social context of education, cultural and political change, and public policy.

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The Critical Middle School Reader

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A unique interdisciplinary compilation of readings that challenge and refocus the basic assumptions about the policies and practices of middle school. This is the first collection of essays that presents multiple critical perspectives on adolescence and middle-level education, including: * critical theory and pedagogy * critical studies of youth * critical psychology * critical race theory * postmodernism * contemporary feminism. These critical perspectives are presented along with excerpts from the classics that have informed the historical construction of adolesence and the creation of middle-level education.

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LeapFrog School Tag Reading Activity Storybooks PreK seriesLeapFrog School Tag Reading Activity Storybooks PreK series – For Use With 64 MB LeapFrog School Tag Reader ONLY

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Product Description The Tag School Reader Books are an easy-to-use Interactive Tool Designed for Use With the 64MB LeapFrog School Tag Reading System (Sold Separately), for students in PreK through Grade 3. This personal learning tool responds to every touch on these specially-printed books and materials, with audio feedback and on-demand reading assistance. Students reading the interactive books can touch an icon to hear the story read aloud, or touch a single word to hear the pronunciation. Even the pictures come to life for added story context and background information. Engaging activities focus on core reading skills including comprehension, vocabulary development, phonics, and phonemic awareness.

LeapFrog School Tag Reading Activity Storybooks PreK seriesLeapFrog School Tag Reading Activity Storybooks PreK series - For Use With 64 MB LeapFrog School Tag Reader ONLY - Details

  • This (5) Book Set of K+ Books are Designed for the 64 MB LeapFrog School Tag Reader ONLY.
  • The Tag School Library titles include familiar stories and popular characters that come to life with every touch of the Tag School Reader.
  • School Tag Reading Titles Included: T. Rex's Mighty Roar, Disney Princess: Adventures Under the Sea, Kung Fu Panda: Po's Tasty Training, Miss Spider's Tea Party & I SPY: Imagine That!

LeapFrog School Tag Reading Activity Storybooks K+ series – For Use With 64 MB LeapFrog School Tag Reader ONLY

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The Tag School Reader Books are an easy-to-use Interactive Tool Designed for Use With the 64MB LeapFrog School Tag Reading System (Sold Separately), for students in PreK through Grade 3. This personal learning tool responds to every touch on these specially-printed books and materials, with audio feedback and on-demand reading assistance. Students reading the interactive books can touch an icon to hear the story read aloud, or touch a single word to hear the pronunciation. Even the pictures come to life for added story context and background information. Engaging activities focus on core reading skills including comprehension, vocabulary development, phonics, and phonemic awareness.

LeapFrog School Tag Reading Activity Storybooks K+ series - For Use With 64 MB LeapFrog School Tag Reader ONLY - Details

  • This (5) Book Set of K+ Books are Designed for the 64 MB LeapFrog School Tag Reader ONLY.
  • The Tag School Library titles include familiar stories and popular characters that come to life with every touch of the Tag School Reader.
  • School Tag Reading Titles Included: Pirates! The Treasure of Turtle Island, Disney / Pixar's Cars: Tractor Tipping, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: The Golden Paddleball, Go Diego Go!: Underwater Mystery & SpongeBob SquarePants: The Tour de Bikini Bottom

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Enrollment open for next year at charter school
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