The Critical Pedagogy Reader

The Critical Pedagogy Reader addressed some ideas about education that I have never really thought about before. This article goes into a great deal about education and how to the educational researcher, school promotes student empowerment and reproduces dominant class interests. Personally when reading through these articles I just start to think that these people are thinking to far into education. Some of the information that was presented, however, makes sense when you really think about education and how it works. School should be a place that a student finds themselves, learn about how they learn, and how they want to perceive the world around them. Although the kids don’t relies it as they are in school but they are there to make a better life for themselves or at least have parents pushing for a better life. 

One thing I read in this article that I have definitely read before is about the macro learning and micro learning. When reading this part of the article I thought, “Macro sounds like a way better of teaching, why aren’t we just using that.” Then I realized how ridiculous that sounded because Micro is just as important for learning dates and and specific information about events. Even in English we have to teaching information about literature and the information about the time surrounding the literature. But majority of the time we are teaching literature we have to dig deep into making connections with reality and finding themes within the text. 

Another interesting topic I found in this text is the different types of knowledge. To the world there is just knowledge, but this text brings up three different types of knowledge presented in the classroom. Technical which is the science knowledge, practical which s analyzing social situations, and finally emancipatory which is understanding social relations are distorted and manipulated by power and privilege. The last one seemed pretty dark outlook on knowledge. However, all the information within the text was really beneficial to me as a future teacher. We must look at all aspects of education if we are to be apart of it.