CRITICAL PEDAGOGY

In order to understand how critical pedagogy can be applied and how it may be demonstrated in the classroom.  Understanding that critical pedagogy is a movement in which in education it empowers students and teachers to recognize hegemony tendencies by developing consciousness social justice and connecting the knowledge to taken action and creating change. Critical pedagogy is based on  Paulo Freire, who is known to be the founder of critical pedagogy.  His philosophies centered on adult education


 Discourse
The teacher can either pose a question or an idea as students interact in conversation about the particular subject selected. A teacher can also pose a problem that exists in their community. The students learn about the idea as they interact in discourse with the teacher, members of community, and between students.

Guided by the Teacher
The teacher guides the students to the objective, that is what they are going to learn through the use of past events in history or current events that are occurring.   The activities selected by the teacher promote communication and allows the student to view other perspectives and incorporate real-word experiences.  However, the idea or concept they  learn is relevant in some way to the students. A possible event in history that impacted their community connected to a world event, similar to the video can be used in the lesson.

Students' Create/Explore/Develop

The teacher allows the students to expand on the idea  or  point of view the teacher wants them to understand and reflect. This is similar to the exploration and evaluation of the 5 E model.  However, students do not use materials given by the teacher.  The  students input is based on what they think and particularly seeking the right or wrong answer is not the objective of the lesson.  Students should feel empowered in learning.  The outcome of the lesson depends on the students interest and effor