Critical Pedagogy: Notes from the Real World / Edition 4

by Joan Wink

Overview

They are the ones who taught me to learn, to relearn, and to unlearn. I went to Benson, Arizona, in the mid-1970s thinking, 'I will teach; they will learn.' It seems so simple. It was not. They taught me that teaching is learning. This book is to show you can make a difference.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900137028732
Publication date:	07/28/2010
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Joan Wink is a professor emerita at California State University, Stanislaus. She lives primarily on the family ranch in South Dakota, but still maintains an active academic life: teaching, consulting, and writing. Her other books include A Vision of Vygotsky (2002), co-authored with Le Putney of UNLV, and Teaching Passionately: What’s Love Got To Do With It? (2004), co-authored with her daughter, Dawn Wink of Santa Fe Community College.

Table of Contents

	Preface	xiii
1	Welcome to My Real World	1
	Some of What Was Not Said in Previous Editions	4
	I Dropped Out	4
	Literacy: Jonathan to Wyatt	5
	The Whispering Continues	7
	Potter Pedagogy	7
	The Path to Pokemon	8
	Captain Underpants to the Rescue	9
	Contradictions and Change	10
	Looking Ahead for Elusive Answers	12
	Practicing Pedagogy Patiently: Home Run Reading	13
	Notes	13
2	How in the World Did I Get into This?	14
	The Benson Kids: Teaching Is Learning	14
	Learn, Relearn, and Unlearn Your Way to Critical Pedagogy	17
	To Learn: Difficult Learning Experiences	18
	To Relearn: Difficult Relearning Experiences	18
	To Unlearn: Difficult Unlearning Experiences	19
	Looking Ahead for Your Stories of Relearning and Unlearning	21
	Practicing Pedagogy Patiently: Tanesha Hits a Home Run	21
	Notes	21
3	What in the World Do You Think It Is?	22
	A Word about Language	22
	Dawn Does Critical Pedagogy	23
	Definitions	24
	Generative Definitions	25
	Phony from the True	27
	Language of Possibility, Language of Critique	29
	Vygotsky: Reaching Back to Move Forward	30
	Word by Word	30
	Banking Model of Education	32
	Conscientization	32
	Carmen Has It	33
	Rainey Doesn't-Well, Didn't	35
	Codification	38
	Culture	38
	Cultural Capital	39
	Dialectic	41
	Dialogue	41
	Discourse	43
	Hegemony	45
	Hidden Curriculum	46
	Literacies	47
	Critical Literacy: Reading the Word and the World	48
	Orate and Literate Communities	49
	Pedagogy	50
	Praxis	50
	Problem Posing	51
	To Groom	52
	To Name	55
	To Marginalize	55
	Schooling, or to School	56
	To Silence	57
	To Socialize	58
	Voice	59
	Looking Ahead for Your Thoughts and Language in Critical Pedagogy	61
	Practicing Pedagogy Patiently	62
	New Words, New Friends	62
	Post-it Patterns	63
	Notes	64
4	What in the World Do I Think It Is?	65
	So What Is Critical Pedagogy?	67
	How I Came to These Understandings of Critical Pedagogy	68
	My Journey: First, Spanish; Next, Bilingual; Finally, Critical Pedagogy	68
	The Word Universe	72
	History Helps: Three Perspectives	72
	Transmission Model	73
	Generative Model	74
	Transformative Model	74
	Transmission to Transformative: An Example	74
	K-W-L	76
	Practicing Pedagogy Patiently	79
	Corri Does Dialectives in Secondary Science	79
	Ethical Dialectic Method	80
	Notes	81
5	Where in the World Did It Come From?	83
	The Latin Voice	83
	Freire: The Foundation	83
	Freire's Voice: A Transcription of an Audiotape	85
	The European Voice	93
	Gramsci	94
	Marx	95
	The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory	96
	Tove Skutnabb-Kangas	97
	The Eastern Voice	103
	Reflections from the East	104
	Peace Education	104
	The North American Voice	105
	Dewey	106
	Ada	107
	McCaleb	108
	Giroux	109
	McLaren	110
	Cummins	112
	Krashen	116
	The Historical Evolution of Critical Pedagogy	117
	The Benson Kids	117
	Looking Ahead for New Leaders: You!	118
	Practicing Pedagogy Patiently: Civics, ESL, and the New Immigrants	118
	Notes	119
6	How in the World Do You Do It?	120
	Thinking about Practice	120
	Carla: Reflecting on Her Practice	121
	Democratic Pedagogy	122
	So How Do You Do Critical Pedagogy?	123
	Problem Posing: Jonathan and Wyatt, Examples from the Community	123
	Problem Posing: Miss Johnson, an Example from Secondary Schools	124
	Principles of Problem Posing	125
	The Teacher's Role in Problem Posing	125
	Problem Posing: Stephanie, an Example from the Primary Grades	126
	Problem Posing: Codification	126
	Problem Posing: Reggie, an Example from Postsecondary	127
	The Essence Is in the Experience	129
	Popcorn	131
	How to Do It	131
	The Experience	132
	Pair Share	132
	How to Do It	132
	The Experience	132
	Dialogue Journal	133
	How to Do It	133
	The Experience	133
	Bloom's Taxonomies	133
	How to Do It	133
	The Experience	133
	Teaching and Learning in the Desert	134
	Four Corners	134
	How to Do It	134
	The Experience	134
	The Messenger and the Scribe	136
	How to Do It	136
	The Experience	136
	Comprehending/Comprehension	136
	How to Do It	137
	The Experience	137
	Problem-Posing Activity: Literacy	138
	How to Do It	138
	The Experience	138
	To Name	138
	To Reflect Critically	139
	To Act	139
	A Mess	140
	Mayida and the Mess	142
	NCLB Calls Us to the Mess	142
	The Proof Is in the Pudding	143
	The Principal: Doing Critical Pedagogy	144
	Practicing Pedagogy Patiently: In the University	147
	Looking Ahead for Elusive Methods	149
	Notes	149
7	How in the World Do You Do It with Families?	151
	Two Perspectives	152
	Models of Parental Involvement	154
	Family Graph	155
	Putting the Home Back in Homework	159
	Reflection to Action	160
	School Families	162
	A Library in the Community: Cow Jumped Over the Moon	163
	Electronic Communities of Families	163
	Galileo: Walking, Observing, Talking, and Recording	164
	Practicing Pedagogy Patiently	164
	Note	164
8	Why in the World Does It Matter?	165
	Students of the Twenty-First Century	166
	The Pedagogy of a Caring Heart and Critical Eyes	167
	A Caring Heart	167
	A Critical Eye	168
	Pedagogy of Courage and Patience	169
	Time, Time, Time	170
	From Buttercup to Power	171
	Teachers Taught Me, Too	173
	Now, Here Is the Point	174
	To Make a Difference	174
	Bob	175
	Roxanne	176
	Looking Ahead for More Elusive Answers	177
	Practicing Pedagogy Patiently: Dayna	178
	The Lesson of Dayna: One Size Does Not Fit All	178
	Three Perspectives on Pedagogy: The Artist's Notes	179
	Note	180
	Bibliography	181
	Index	189