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Critical Pedagogy: An Overview

What Is Feminist Pedagogy?

Feminist pedagogy is a theory about the teaching/learning process that guides our choice of classroom practices by providing criteria to evaluate specific educational strategies and techniques in terms of the desired course goals or outcomes. These evaluative criteria include the extent to which a community of learners is empowered to act responsibly toward one another and the subject matter an...

The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical Pedagogy of Place

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Applying corpus linguistics to pedagogy A critical evaluation

This article reviews and discusses four somewhat contentious issues in the application of corpus linguistics to pedagogy, ESP in particular. Corpus linguistic techniques have been criticized on the grounds that they encourage a more bottom-up rather than top-down processing of text in which concordance lines are examined atomistically. One criticism levelled against corpus data is that a corpus...

'finding One's Way' through a Radical Critical Pedagogy

Drawing on McLaren's notion of radical critical pedagogy, I begin this essay by examining the refle Wayne-a 21-year-old, African American university student. His reflections, as those arose in autobiographica essays, not only illuminated a particular stance towards teaching and curriculum, but also directed attention t was teaching. By naming his environment 'racist,' he reveals the uneasy mean...

Understanding Digital Health as Public Pedagogy: A Critical Framework

This paper argues on behalf of a public pedagogy approach to developing a critical understanding of digital health technologies. It begins by appraising the hitherto polarised articulations of digital innovation as either techno-utopian or techno-dystopian, examining these expectations of technology and considering the tensions between them. It subsequently outlines how a public pedagogy approa...