Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah UniversityFaculty of Arts and

Human SciencesDhar Mehraz, Fez

Applied Language Studies and

Research in Higher Education Master

Program

Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy in Language Teaching and Learning

Academic Year: 2014/2015

Presented by:Mohamed Benhima

Supervised by:

Dr. Mohamed Ouakrime

Outline

Introduction ……………………………………………………..……………..

Background ………………….………..………………………………… A Tentative Definition of Rvolutionary Critical Pedagogy. Principles of Rvolutionary Critical Pedagogy ……..………… Implications ………………………….…………………………………. Criticism ………………………….……………………………………………………..

Conclusion…………………………………………………………………..Bibiliography ……………………………………………………………..

I. Background

Critical Theory (The Frankfurt School) Critical pedagogy (Paulo Freire) Critical Applied Linguistics (Pennycook) Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy (Peter

Maclarn)

Critical Linguistics: A redefinition of language: Fairclough (1992, p.28): “Discourse is more than just language use: it is language

use seen as a type of social practice”.

A reconsideration of the language teaching approach:

According to Morgan (1997): This is no longer a matter of drilling students in grammatical skills,

instructing them in turning out a five- paragraph essay, responding appreciatively to novels, plays and poems or creating their own in the like manner”. (p. 88)

Two approaches to Education in general and Language Education in particular appeared:

Critical Pedagogy Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy

Humanistic Post Marxism

II. (Revolutionary) Critical Pedagogy Defined

The term revolutionary critical pedagogy was used first by MacLarn:

“Life in Schools” (1996) “Che Guevera, Paulo Freire and the Pedagogy of Revolution” (2004)

“Here is by now a fairly large body of work under the rubric of ‘[revolutionary] critical pedagogy’ ... Viewing schools as cultural areas where diverse ideological and social forms are in constant struggle, ‘[revolutionary] critical pedagogy seeks to understand and critique the historical and sociopolitical context of schooling and to develop pedagogical practices that aim not only to change the nature of schooling, but also the wider society. (Pennycook 2001: 24)” [emphasis added].

Different terms can be used interchangeably with critical pedagogy:

Libratory education; Social justice education; Education for equity; Transformative praxis; Empowerment and Praxis;

III. Principles and Implications of Revolutionary Pedagogy

The notion of banking knowledge; Language Loss in immigrant settings; Language death; English as a colonizing language; Students should not use put down or laugh at

each other; Standardized tests are considered an

illustration of ruling class hegemony.

I V. Criticism of Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy

According to Ramin (2006), “this is more of a philosophical text than a “how to” book for classroom practitioners. “Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution” signals a profound deepening of McLaren's own radical project.”

According to Widdowson, applied linguists should be mediators between teacher and theoretician not a revolutionary critic.

All in all, the teaching and learning of languages have always been open to ongoing changes. As there was a shift from a descriptive view of language to a more critical one, new approaches have appeared to the teaching and learning of languages and the social practices that characterize such acts. These approaches range from critical pedagogy to a more revoultionary critical one.

Conclusion

Douglas Kellner (2000). Revolutionary Pedagogies. Editor: Routledge.

Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Seabury Press

McLaren, P. (1995). Critical pedagogy and predatory culture: Oppositional politics in a postmodern era. London and New York: Routledge.

McLaren, P. (1997). Revolutionary multiculturalism: Pedagogies of dissent for the new millennium. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press

Morgan, W. (1997). Critical Literacy in the Classroom: The Art of the Possible. London and New York: Routledge.

Pennycook, A. (2001). Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction. Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Bibliography

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