Category Archives: Dialogical learning

The Practice of Dialogue in Critical Pedagogy

Read This paper examines dialogue in the higher education classroom. Instigated by my teaching experiences and the paucity of empirical studies examining dialogue in the higher education classroom, I present a re-examination of data I collected in 1996 for an … Continue reading

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Encouraging Reflective and Critical Thinking – an Action-Research exploration of Teaching and Learning

Read Using act, reflect, and revise cycles of action research, this study explores ways of encouraging students to think about their thinking, their reading strategies, and their comprehension of the text while reading. Sentence starters, questions, and discussions guide their … Continue reading

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Reading Freire and Habermas: critical pedagogy and transformative social change

Reading Freire and Habermas: critical pedagogy and transformative social change In this book, two well-known scholars of critical educational studies provide a compelling introduction to the thoughts of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and German critical theorist Jurgen Habermas. While there … Continue reading

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Reinventing critical pedagogy

Reinventing critical pedagogy Reinventing Critical Pedagogy is divided into three thematic areas: Race, Ethnicity, and Critical Pedagogy, which exposes the pervasiveness of white supremacy and ethnic conflict; Theoretical Concerns, in which authors rethink the basic premises of capitalism, alienation, experience, … Continue reading

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