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Critical pedagogy is evidenced by action or teaching for transformation. However, most traditional classrooms are concerned with teaching as transmission or teaching as transaction. Definitions and examples of transmission, transaction, and transformation are provided, and explicit examples of each type of classroom are explained in this chapter. What happens when teachers teach for transmission, for transaction, for transformation? The largest section of this chapter includes examples from transformative educators in settings and classrooms where they made transformation visible and easily described as they moved toward transformation.
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Christensen, L.M., Aldridge, J. (2013). Teaching for Transformation. In: Critical Pedagogy for Early Childhood and Elementary Educators. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5395-2_10
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