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What Freirean Critical Pedagogy Says and Overlooks from a Durkheimian Perspective
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Abstract
"Critical pedagogy" has become a prevalent grammar furthering the necessity of a change in pedagogy from a banking‐style to problem‐posing approach, which it argues will facilitate students' development of independent values and equip them to lead the liberation of society from authoritarianism into... view more
"Critical pedagogy" has become a prevalent grammar furthering the necessity of a change in pedagogy from a banking‐style to problem‐posing approach, which it argues will facilitate students' development of independent values and equip them to lead the liberation of society from authoritarianism into democracy. To achieve this, classrooms need to serve as cultural forums, through which either engaged pedagogy or negotiated authority empowers teachers and students to engage in free dialogues that problematize school textbooks as "cultural politics". This empowerment demands that teachers perform as transformative intellectuals, dedicating themselves to the amelioration of inequity in educational results by reconstructing new texts, making them more accessible to working‐class students. While these theoretical lexicons envision a new perspective for the "educational function", alleviation of the phenomenon of cultural reproduction can only occur if critical pedagogists pay more attention to academic curricula. Student achievements in such curricula, which respond to the demands of the social division of labor, have a profound influence on their potential social mobility.... view less
Keywords
syllabus; pedagogics; teaching; educational inequality; social mobility; cultural factors
Classification
Curriculum, Teaching, Didactics
Macroanalysis of the Education System, Economics of Education, Educational Policy
Free Keywords
Freirean critical pedagogy; academic curriculum; educational inequity; emancipatory function; power relations; social mobility
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 1-11
Journal
Social Inclusion, 9 (2021) 4
Issue topic
Promoting Inclusion and Equality in Education
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed