Leaders in Critical Pedagogy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Critical Pedagogical Praxis

   • William M. Reynolds

   Pages 1-15

3. Just What the Hell is a Neo-Marxist Anyway?

   • Wayne Au

   Pages 17-35

4. Language, Literacy, and Culture

   • Sonia Nieto

   Pages 37-48

5. A Compound Criticality

   • Noah De Lissovoy

   Pages 49-59

6. Coming to Critical Pedagogy

   • Curry Stephenson Malott

   Pages 61-79

7. My Struggle for Pedagogy

   • Jennifer M. Gore

   Pages 81-91

8. A View from Southern Europe

   • Peter Mayo

   Pages 93-102

9. Go Stupid

   • David Gabard

   Pages 103-113

10. Joe Lyons Kincheloe’s Critical Pedagogy

    • Domenica Maviglia

    Pages 115-125

11. Self and Social Formation and the Political Project of Teaching

    • Peter Mclaren

    Pages 127-139

12. Dr. Dewey, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Where Ideas Come from and Love Critical Pedagogy

    • E. Wayne Ross

    Pages 141-155

13. A Marxist Pig Farmer in Kansas

    • John M. Elmore

    Pages 157-168

14. From Practice to Theory & from Theory to Praxis

    • Ana L. Cruz

    Pages 169-183

15. Education and Discomfort

    • Michael W. Apple

    Pages 185-198

16. Towards Rebellious Research

    • Juha Suoranta

    Pages 199-209

17. The Potential of Poetic Possibility

    • Lisa Y. Wiliam-White

    Pages 211-224

18. Humility Within Critical Pedagogy

    • Suzanne Soohoo

    Pages 225-233

19. Afterword

    • Sandy Grande

    Pages 235-241

20. Back Matter

    Pages 243-246

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Critical pedagogy has variously inspired, mobilized, troubled, and frustrated teachers, activists, and educational scholars for several decades now. Since its inception the field has been animated by internal antagonism and conflict, and this reality has simultaneously spread the influence of the field in and out of education and seriously challenged its status as an integral body of work. The various debates that have categorized critical pedagogy have also made it difficult for younger scholars to enter into the literature. This is the first book to survey critical pedagogy through first-hand accounts of its established and emerging leaders. While the book does indeed provide a historical exploration and documentation of the development of critical pedagogy as a contested and dynamic educational intervention—as well as analyses of that development and directions toward possible futures—it is also intended to provide an accessible and comprehensive entry point for a new generation of activists, organizers, scholars, and educators who place questions of pedagogy and social justice at the heart of their thinking and doing. “Martin Heidegger once said that Aristotle’s life could be summarized in one, short sentence ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ Porfilio and Ford’s brilliantly curated compilation of autobiographical sketches of leaders in critical pedagogy resolutely rejects Heidegger’s reductive thesis, reminding us all that theory is grounded in the historical specificities and material contradictions of life. For those well acquainted with critical pedagogy, these theoretical memoirs grant us a unique and sometimes surprisingly intimate glimpse into the lives behind the words we know so well. But most importantly, the format of the book is an educational intervention into how critical pedagogy can be taught. While it is often the case that students find critical pedagogy dense, inaccessible, and seemingly detached from the everyday concerns of teache

• Critical pedagogy
• Educational theory
• Critical studies in education
• Narrative Inquiry
• Social Justice

• California State University, East Bay, USA

  Brad J. Porfilio

• Syracuse University, New York, USA

  Derek R. Ford