Critical Pedagogy

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.

• ContentsIntroduction  1     Why in The World Does Critical Pedagogy Matter?The Lesson of Dayna: One Size Does Not Fit AllThree Perspectives on Pedagogy: The Artist’s NotesCritical Pedagogy: What in the World Do I Think It Is?       How I Came To These Understandings My Journey: First, Spanish; Next, Bilingual; Finally, Critical PedagogyThe Word UniverseHistory Helps: Three PerspectivesTransmission ModelGenerative ModelTransformative ModelTransmission to Transformative and ExampleK-W-LThe World Is Changing Faster and FasterM.Greene and MoreNew ResourcesBanks and Social ActionThe Benson Kids: Teaching is LearningLearn, Relearn, and Unlearn Your Way to Critical PedagogyThe Reflective Cycle, An Overview: More Learning, Relearning, and UnlearningThe Reflective Cycle and You  Notes  2     What in The World Is Critical Pedagogy?A Word About LanguageDawn Does Critical PedagogyLe Does Critical PedagogyWhat’s In A Name?DefinitionsGenerative DefinitionsLanguage of Possibility, Language of CritiqueVygotsky: Reaching Back to Move Forward    Word by Word   Banking Model of Education    Conscientization    Carmen Has It    Rainey Doesn’t–Well, Didn’t    Codification    Culture    Cultural Capital    Dialectic    Dialogue    Discourse   Hegemony    Hidden Curriculum    Literacies    Critical Literacy: Reading the Word and the World    Orate and Literate Communities    Pedagogy    Praxis    CARMA, Critical Action Research Matrix ApplicationProblem Posing    To Groom    To Name    To Marginalize    Schooling, or to School    To Silence To Socialize    Voice I Have Eaten More RiceReflective Cycle Notes      3     Where in The World Did Critical Pedagogy Come From? The Tree Continues to GrowWhy Socrates?Why Plato?Why Aristotle?Why Vygotsky?The Latin Voice   Freire: The Foundation    Freire’s Voice: A Transcription of an Audiotape    The European Voice    Gramsci    Marx    The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory    Tove Skutnabb-Kangas    The Eastern Voice    Reflections from the East    Peace Education    The North American Voice    Dewey    Ada    McCaleb    Giroux    McLaren    Cummins    Krashen    A Few (more) Good WomenA Few Good MenThe African American Voice: Group SolidarityThe Perspective from Down UnderThe Historical Evolution of Critical Pedagogy    The Benson Kids Again    Reflective Cycle Notes      4     How in The World Do You Do Critical Pedagogy? Thinking about Practice    Carla: Reflecting on Her Practice    Democratic Pedagogy    Praxis: Linking Theory and PracticeTwo PerspectivesSo How Do You Do Critical Pedagogy?     Problem Posing: Jonathan and Wyatt, Examples from the Community    Problem Posing: Miss Johnson, an Example from Secondary Schools    Principles of Problem Posing    The Teacher’s Role in Problem Posing    Problem Posing: Stephanie, an Example from the Primary Grades    Problem Posing: Codification   Problem Posing: Reggie, an Example from Postsecondary    Homerun ReadingThe Essence Is in the Experience    Popcorn    How to Do It    The Experience    Pair Share    How to Do It    The Experience    Dialogue Journal    How to Do It    The Experience    Bloom’s Taxonomies    How to Do It    The Experience    Teaching and Learning in the Desert    Four Corners    How to Do It    The Experience    The Messenger and the Scribe    How to Do It    The Experience    Comprehending/Comprehension    How to Do It    The Experience    Problem-Posing Activity: Literacy    How to Do It    The Experience    To Name    To Reflect Critically    To Act    The Mess    Mayida and the Mess    NCLB Calls Us to the Mess    The Proof Is in the Pudding    The Principal: Doing Critical Pedagogy Talking the Talk in the UniversityLibrary MappingReflective CycleNotes      5     Where in The World Do We Go From Here Who Are The Students?Burke’s Generational Chart: Boomers, Gen X, and Gen YStudents of the Twenty-First Century Advocacy and ActionThe Virtual Present and FutureFrom Critical Literacy to MultiliteraciesThe Pedagogy of a Caring Heart and Critical Eyes    A Caring Heart    A Critical Eye    Pedagogy of Courage and Patience    Time, Time, Time    From Buttercup to Power   Teachers Taught Me, Too   What Teachers Taught MeModels of Parental Involvement    Family Involvement or Family EngagementGintell Does Critical PedagogyFamily Graph    Putting the Home Back in Homework Reflection to Action    School Families    Now, Here Is the Point    To Make a Difference    Bob    What I Can Do   Your Final Reflection  Note    180Bibliography    Index