Becoming a critical educator : defining a classroom indentity, designing a critical pedagogy / Patricia H. Hinchey.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 224.
Main Author: Hinchey, Patricia H., 1951-
Language:English
Published: New York : P. Lang, [2004], ©2004.
Series:Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 224.
Subjects:
Critical pedagogy > United States.
Education > Political aspects > United States.
Physical Description:xx, 168 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • I: Beginning the journey: thinking about our thinking
  • 1. Starting points: assumptions and alternatives
  • Why theory and philosophy matter: from the abstract to the practical
  • Developing a personal stance
  • Historical possibilities: traditional goals
  • An alternative agenda: critical goals
  • The why and how of praxis
  • 2. Understanding our own thinking: developing critical consciousness
  • Issues of race
  • Issues of gender and sexual orientation
  • The complexity of cultural conditioning
  • 3. Expanding our thinking: Learning about "other people's children"
  • Who are America's schoolchildren?
  • Poverty, race, and schoolchildren
  • Other people's children: educational history and legacies
  • Other people's children: current realities
  • II: Considering destinations: truth, consequences, and the critical vision
  • 4. In the interest of everyone but kids: the politics of contemporary educational reform
  • Themes in national political rhetoric
  • Theme 1: Education as workforce preparation
  • Theme 2: Education is failing
  • Rhetoric and realities
  • Why produce a "manufactured crisis"?
  • Corporations on the crisis bandwagon
  • Corporation in the schoolhouse
  • Staging for twenty-first-century reforms
  • 5. Consequences of contemporary educational reform: winners and losers
  • Standards and high-stakes testing
  • The winners
  • The losers
  • Moves toward privatization
  • The winners
  • the losers
  • 6. Critical alternatives for schools and teachers
  • Critical alternatives: redefining democracy and democratic goals
  • Critical alternatives: schooling for participative citizenship
  • Education as critical inquiry for social change
  • Education in service to the many
  • Critical alternatives: teachers pursuing social justice
  • Teachers who understand social power arrangements
  • Teachers who respect the other
  • Teachers as public intellectuals
  • Teachers as risk-takers
  • Parting thoughts
  • Information and allies for the critical educator.