Session

Topics and Lectures

Class Activities

Reading Assignments

(be ready to discuss)

1

- Introduction

- Introductions, Bio Sheets

- The course, readings, assignments, perspectives, requirements, evaluation, etc.

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2

- FOUNDATIONS OF CRITICAL PEDAGOGY

- UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIOPOLITICAL CONTEXT OF SCHOOLING

- Journal entries / Course Readings discussion

- CPR: 1 Critical Theory & Educational Practice by Henry A. Giroux

- CPR: 2 Introduction Critical Pedagogy: A Look at the Major Concepts by Peter McLaren

- CPR: 3 Cultural Politics and the Text by Michael W. Apple

- CPR:  4 Pedagogy of Love: Embodying Our Humanity by Antonia Darder

- Affirming Diversity: chapter 1

3

- SOCIAL CLASS & EDUCATION

- CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION / SCHOOL REFORM

- Journal entries / Course Readings discussion

- CPR: 5 Against Schooling: Education and Social Class by Stanley Aronowitz

- CPR: 6 Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work by Jean Anyon

- CPR: 7 The Class-Conscious Educator in the 21st Century by Curry Stephenson Malott

- CPR: 8 Confronting Class in the Classroom by bell hooks

- Affirming Diversity: chapters 2 & 3

4

- RACISM & IDENTITIES

- STRUCTURAL / ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES IN CLASSROOMS & SCHOOLS

- Journal entries / Course Readings discussion

- CPR: 9 Dancing with Bigotry: The Poisoning of Racial and Ethnic Identities by Lilia Bartolomé and Donaldo Macedo

- CPR: 10 American Indian Geographies of Identity and Power by Sandy Grande

- CPR: 11 Theories of Racism, Asian American Identities, & a Materialist Critical Pedagogy by Kevin Lam

- CPR: 12 Decolonizing Schools and Our Mentality: Narratives for Pedagogical Possibilities by Pierre Orelus

- Affirming Diversity: chapters 4 & 5

5

- GENDER, SEXUALITY AND SCHOOLING

- LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY, AND UNDERSTANDING STUDENT LEARNING & ACHIEVEMENT

- Journal entries / Course Readings discussion

- CPR: 13 Feminist Analysis of Gender and Schooling by Kathleen Weiler

- CPR: 14 Sexuality Education and Desire: Still Missing After all These Years by Michelle Fine & Sara I. McClelland

- CPR: 15 Recovering from ‘Yo Mama is so Stupid": (En)gendering a critical paradigm on Black Feminist Theory and Pedagogy by Rochelle Brock

- CPR: 16 LGBTQ Inclusions as an Outcome of Critical Pedagogy by Michelle L. Page

- Affirming Diversity: chapters 6 & 7

6

- CRITICAL LITERACIES

- LEARNING FROM STUDENTS

- Journal entries / Course Readings discussion

- CPR: 17 Critical Literacy: Bringing Theory to Praxis by Elizabeth Bishop

- CPR: 18 Teaching How to Read the World and Change It by Robert E. Peterson

- CPR: 19 ‘Oh, They’re Sending a Bad Message’ by Bettina Love

- CPR: 20 Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Popular Culture by Ernest Morrell

- CPR: 21 Reconstructing Technoliteracy: A Multiple Literacies Approach by Richard Kahn & Douglas Kellner

- Affirming Diversity: chapter 8

7

- CRITICAL PEDAGOGY & THE CLASSROOM

- ADAPTING CURRICULUM

- Share Self-Ethnography Identity Statement responses

- Journal entries / Course Readings discussion

- CPR: 22 I Won't Learn from You! Thoughts on the Role of Assent in Learning by Herbert Kohl

- CPR: 23 A Feminist Reframing of Bullying and Harassment: Transforming Schools through Critical Pedagogy by Elizabeth J. Meyer

- CPR: 24 Redirecting the Teacher's Gaze: Teacher Education, Youth Surveillance & the School-to-Prison Pipeline by John Raible & Jason G. Irizarry

25 Teaching (with) Disability: Pedagogies of Lived Experience by Robert C. Anderson

- Affirming Diversity: chapter 9

8

- CRITICAL PEDAGOGY & TEACHER EDUCATION

- AFFIRMING DIVERSITY

- Share Self-Ethnography Identity Statement responses

- Journal entries / Course Readings discussion

- CPR: 26 Teaching as Possibility: A Light in Dark Times by Maxine Greene

- CPR: 27 The Knowledges of Teacher Education: Developing a Critical Complex Epistemology by Joe Kincheloe

- CPR: 28 What’s Radical Love Got to do with it: Navigating Identity, Pedagogy, and Positionality in Pre-Service Education by Ty-ron Douglas & Christine Nganga

- CPR: 29 Power Politics and Critical Race Pedagogy: A Critical Analysis of Black Male Teachers’ Pedagogy by Marvin Lynn & Michael E. Jennings

- Affirming Diversity: chapter 10

9

- EDUCATION, DEMOCRACY, & CAPITALIST SOCIETY

- Share Self-Ethnography Identity Statement responses

- Journal entries / Course Readings discussion

– Student Evaluations (SOTEs)

- CPR: 30 The Continuing Conflicts Between Capitalism & Democracy: Ramifications for Schooling by Richard Brosio

- CPR: 31 Beyond accountability: Toward Schools that Create New People for a New Way of Life by Pauline Lipman

- CPR: 32 Creating a Pedagogy in Common by Noah De Lissovoy, Alex Means, & Kenneth Saltman

- CPR: 33 Broadening the Circle of Critical Pedagogy by E. Wayne Ross

- CPR: Afterword: The War Against Teachers as Public Intellectuals by Henry A. Giroux

10

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- Share last remaining Self-Ethnography Identity Statement responses

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