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the face of critical pedagogy

Critical pedagogy has its roots in the work, among others, of John Dewey and Michel Foucault.

Some prominent critical theorists and educators, along with some of their most influential works, include the following:

► Paolo Freire

	* Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1970
	* Pedagogy of Hope, 1994
	* Pedagogy of the Heart, 1997
	* The Paolo Freire Reader, 1998

► Henry Giroux

	* Theory and Resistance in Education: Towards a Pedagogy For the Opposition, 1983
	* Education Under Siege: The Conservative, Liberal, and Radical Debate Over Education, 1985
	* Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education, 1992
	* Pedagogy and the Politics of Hope: Theory, Culture, and Schooling, 1997

► Peter McLaren

	* see list of works
	* Cries from the Corridor, 1980
	* Teaching against Global Capitalism and The New Imperialism, 2004
	* Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education, 2006

► Ira Shor

	* Critical Teaching and Everyday Life, 1983
	* A Pedagogy for Liberation: Dialogues on Transforming Education, 1987 - written with Paolo Freire
	* Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change, 1992
	* When Students Have Power: Negotiating Authority in a Critical Pedagogy, 1996

► bell hooks

	* Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, 1994
	* Killing rage: ending racism, 1995
	* Reel to real: race, sex, and class at the movies, 1996
	* Remembered rapture: the writer at work, 1999.

► Michael W. Apple

	* Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age, 2000
	* Ideology and Curriculum, 2004
	* Educating the 'Right' Way: Market, Standards, God, and Inequality, 2nd ed., 2006
	* Democratic Schools, 2nd ed., 2007

► Donald Lazere

Donald Lazere is professor emeritus of English at California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo and currently teaches at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He is the author of Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy: The Critical Citizen’s Guide to Argumentative Rhetoric (Paradigm Publishers), and numerous articles.

► Donaldo Macedo

	* Howard Zinn on Democratic Education, 2004, written with Howard Zinn
	* Literacies of Power: What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know, 2006

► Mary Louise Pratt

	* "Arts of the Contact Zone," 1991
	* Toward a Speech Act Theory of Critical Discourse, 1977

► Mary Rose O'Reilly

	* The Peaceable Classroom, 1993
	* Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice, 1998
	* The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd, 2001
	* The Love of Impermanent Things: A Threshold Ecology, 2006

► Barry Kanpol

	* Issues and Trends in Critical Pedagogy (Critical Ethics and Education), 1997
	* "Critical Pedagogy for Beginning Teachers: the Movement from Despair to Hope," 1998
	* Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction, 2nd Edition (Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series), 1999
	* Politics of Inclusion: Preparing Education Majors for Urban Realities (Themes of Urban and Inner City Education), 2005

► Michelle Fine

	* Framing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urban Public High School (S U N Y Series, Teacher Empowerment and School Reform), 1991
	* Off White: Readings on Race, Power, and Society, 1996
	* Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations: Re-Imagining Schools, 2003
	* "Bearing witness: Methods for researching oppression and resistance. A textbook for critical research methods," 2006

► Alastair Pennycook


	* Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction, 2001
	* English and the Discourses of Colonialism (The Politics of Language), 2007

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