Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students will: a) understand the historical and social conditions of the birth and development of Critical pedagogy b) know the basic theoretical characteristics of Critical pedagogy, c) know basic aspects of the theoretical work of its founders.
Course Content (Syllabus)
•Critical pedagogy as a stream of theoretical thought and pedagogical practice of Pedagogy was born in the USA in the 1980s. Its understanding is a complex undertaking that includes: a) Analysis of the social, political and ideological conditions of its birth and development.Critical Pedagogy since its birth in the USA has been facing a sustained neoliberal-neoconservative assault in which school and education processes are at an accelerating pace being deconstructed (through the mainstream education policies of resource cuts, as well as the reactionary changes imposed in their pedagogical relationships and culture). It is the socio-political coincidence in which the forces of private capital, dominating the economic, social, cultural, political, scientific, and technological fields, attempt to restructure public and free education. They degrade it from a public and social good, they gradually turn it into a private one, turning it into a commodity. Critical pedagogy committed to the struggle for socio-political transformation, attempts not only to resist specific policies but also to transform school and society.
• b) The study of its characteristics, such as: i) its social and educational perspective on social justice and equality ii) the political dimension of education iii) the struggle for changing conditions of reality that make people suffer iv) the obstruction of mechanisms social and educational categorization and prioritization that adversely affect socially, economically, as well as the language of marginalized student populations v) the importance of productive subjects vi) teachers as researchers of their students and school context vii) the social change and the development/cultivation of critical consciousness viii) the struggle for the marginalized, the disposable people as well as people without a voice ix) the critique for positivism x) the critical vigilance for the normative and regulatory role of science xi) the importance of understanding the complexity of the social context xii) the resistance to any power that aims to dominate and exploit of people
c) The study and analysis of important texts of its pioneering founders: Henry Giroux, Stanley Aronowitz, Peter Mc Laren & Paulo Freire.
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Keywords
Critical pedagogy, social equality and justice, marginalized and disposable people, critical consciousness, theory of resistance in educadion
Additional bibliography for study
Γούναρη, Π.& Γρόλλιος, Γ. (επιμ.) (2010). Κριτική Παιδαγωγική. Αθήνα: Gutenberg.
Γούναρη, Π. & Γρόλλιος, Γ. (2016). Απελευθερωτική και Κριτική Παιδαγωγική στην Ελλάδα. Ιστορικές διαδρομές και προοπτική. Αθήνα: Gutenberg.
Μc Laren, P. & Farahmandpur, R. (2013). Για μια παιδαγωγική της αντίστασης. Διδάσκοντας ενάντια στον παγκόσμιο καπιταλισμό και τον νέο ιμπεριαλισμό. Αθήνα: Τόπος.
Νικολακάκη, Μ. (επιμ.) (2011) Η Κριτική παιδαγωγική στον νέο μεσαίωνα, Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Ι. Σιδέρης
Ράσης, Σ. (1988). Η Θεωρία της αντίστασης στην εκπαίδευση. Σύγχρονη Εκπαίδευση, τχ 40, σς. 52-63.
Freire, P. (2022). Παιδαγωγική της αυτονομίας. Αθήνα: Διάδραση.
Freire, P. (2022). Παιδαγωγική της ελπίδας. Αθήνα: Διάδραση.
Φρέιρε, Π. (1977). Αγωγή του καταπιεζόμενου. Αθήνα: Ράππας.
Φρέιρε, Π. (2023). Η Αφήγηση. Προς μια παιδαγωγική του διαλόγου. Θεσσαλονίκη: Επίκεντρο