A growing movement in higher education seeks to bring “critical digital pedagogy” to college classrooms. But the idea can seem a bit abstract and, well, academic. So we invited two proponents of the ...

Critical pedagogy, an educational philosophy that invites students to critique and challenge systems of power and oppression, was originally developed by Brazilian educator Paolo Freire in 1968, but ...

Critical pedagogy in English language education foregrounds the relationship between language learning and social justice, treating the classroom as a space where power relations can be deconstructed ...

The pedagogy popularised by E.D.Hirsch, and recently promoted by the likes of Civitas, reduces teaching into nothing more than a bleak transmission model of learning. Hirsch's theory focuses on what ...

THE concept of critical pedagogy was put forward by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire in his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed. He discussed in detail how educational institutions are taking critical ...

Critical pedagogy is an emancipatory approach that situates education as a site of social transformation. Rooted in the work of Paulo Freire, it emphasises the development of critical consciousness, ...

The student body is changing fast. So, too, are students’ needs and goals. If we are to serve our students well, our teaching and assessment strategies need to change, too. Gradually and unevenly, the ...

Higher education needs transformative practices to respond to the challenges of the 21st century. Combining expansive, organic learning with active, critical use of technology could be the way forward ...

In what was marketed as the first “Leaders Breakfast” on Newstalk ZB with Mike Hoskings, the leader of the National Party, Judith Collins, commented on the secondary education curriculum of Aotearoa ...

One way to integrate critical thinking into classrooms is through feminist teaching. But, what is feminist teaching? How can educators use feminist teaching as a means to bring critical thinking to ...