Critical Pedagogy

Critical pedagogy refers to the means and methods of testing and attempting to change the structures of schools that allow inequities. It is a cultural-political tool that takes seriously the notion of human differences, particularly those related to race, class, and gender. Critical pedagogy seeks to release the oppressed and unite people in a shared language of critique, struggle, and hope, to end various forms of human suffering. In this revised edition, Kanpol takes the pre- and in-service educators along some initial steps to becoming critical pedagogists. As before, university professors and public school teachers alike will learn how to address their own prophetic commitments to belief and faith in the fight against despair, institutional chaos, oppression, death of spirit, and exile.

BARRY KANPOL is Associate Professor of Education and Education Department Chair at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He is the author of a number of books, includingTeachers Talking Back and Breaking Bread (1998) and Issues and Trends in Critical Pedagogy (1997). He is the coeditor ofCritical Multiculturalism: Uncommon Voices in a Common Struggle with Peter McLaren (Bergin & Garvey, 1995).