Encounter with Paulo Freire's Critical Pedagogy: Visiting the Brazilian Social Context (1950s-1970s)

Critical Pedagogy in the Context of Iran: Exploring English Teachers’ Perceptions

Abstract:  Three  decades  ago,  the  theory  of  education  took  a  critical  turn.  From  this perspective,  classroom  is  no  longer  a  public  sphere  of  cultural  assimilation  but  a  site  for identity struggle. The basic argument underlying such an approach is that education cannot be studied in isolation from an analysis of wider social and cultural influences. In such a context, t...

Targeting the American Market for Medicines, ca. 1950s–1970s:

The forces that have shaped American medicine include a wide set of interrelated changes, among them the changing research, development, and marketing practices of the pharmaceutical industry. This article compares the research and development (R&D) and marketing strategies of the British group Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI, whose Pharmaceutical Division was spun off and merged with the Swe...

Critical social pedagogy: Colliding with neo-liberal education management

This paper reports research conducted by the Research Centre for Learning and Social Transformation. Our work on workbased learning (WBL) reframes the dualism of higher education and vocational education and training within a critical social pedagogy framework. In implementing WBL we are aware of the epistemological and historical backgrounds of workbased learning and the tensions between compe...

Paulo Freire pedagogy of oppresed

critical pedagogy in the context of iran: exploring english teachers’ perceptions

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