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The Three Tenets Of Critical Pedagogy In Teacher Education

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Freire conceptualized authentic teaching as enacting a clear authority, rather than being authoritarian. The teacher, in his conception, is not neutral, but intervenes in the educational situation in order to help the student to overcome those aspects of his or her social constructs that are paralyzing and to learn to think critically. In a similar fashion, Freire validated and affirmed the experiences of the oppressed without automatically legitimizing or validating their content. All experiences – including those of the teacher – had to be interrogated in order to lay bare their ideological assumptions and presuppositions. The benchmark that Freire used for evaluating experiences grew out of Christianized Marxist humanism. From this position, Freire urged both students and teachers to unlearn their race, class and gender privileges and to engage in a dialogue with those whose experiences are very different from their own. Thus, he did not uncritically affirm student or teacher experiences but provided the conceptual tools with which to critically interrogate them to minimize their politically domesticating influences.
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Though one cannot give a procedural guideline for implementing critical pedagogy into a programme of teacher education, there are three tenets that are inherent in a critical pedagogy. These tenets are a culmination of perspectives from various critical theorists including Giroux, McLaren, Delpit, Ladson-Billings, Dillard, Hooks and others. The three tenets are as follows: (a) reflection upon the individual’s culture or lived experience, (b) development of voice through a critical look at one’s world and society, which takes place in dialogue with others and (c) transforming the society toward equality for all citizens through active participation in democratic

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