Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #criticalpedagogy
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"Toward a Transformative Criticality for Democratic Citizenship Education" Critical Thinking vs. #CriticalPedagogy #Indoctrination
critical thinking : pluralist, level-headed, reasonable, political autonomy
Critical pedagogy: solidarity, critique, social justice activism 🧵1/20
critical thinking : pluralist, level-headed, reasonable, political autonomy
Critical pedagogy: solidarity, critique, social justice activism 🧵1/20
"Those favoring critical thinking...aim to produce young people who can make thoughtful, well-substantiated choices about their values and behavior." "they eschew an ideological orientation...in favor of a logical orientation...producing thoughtful...reasonable people." 2/
The author is a Critical Pedagogy advocate themselves, believes, "schools can and should prepare young people to participate skillfully in the struggle to bring about a more just world." & and is open about "critical pedagogy’s (admittedly often real) indoctrination problem." 3/
🧵 on Gloria #LadsonBillings, the primary source for bringing #CRT into the field of education. You know, #CriticalRaceTheory that so many super honest & super smart people have repeatedly liked to claim doesn’t even exist outside of Law Schools. 1/19
GLB injected her “critical(Marxist)” socio-historical racial lens of #CRT into the education system in 1995, with her paper written alongside William Tate, & titled “Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education” & followed that up in 1998 with…2/
“Just What is Critical Race Theory, and What’s It Doing in a Nice Field Like Education?”Two works that “extend the intellectual contributions of legal scholars; Derrick Bell, Cheryl Harris, Lani Guinier, Kimberle Crenshaw, Patricia Williams, Linda Greene, Mari Matsuda…3/
A glimpse into the psychosis of Critical Whiteness Studies. A 🧵 on Zeus Leonardo’s, Pale/Ontology. Some highlights,“Kill The White, Save The Human”-“key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race .. 1/ @ConceptualJames @wokal_distance @TVPUAC @e2hd7a 
so long as the white race exists, all movements against racism are doomed to fail” - “whiteness is not only false and oppressive, it is nothing but false and oppressive- Roediger “dismantling of whiteness becomes a racial means to a Marxist end”- Alcoff 2/
“abolishing whiteness sees no redeeming aspects of it and as long as White people think they are White, Baldwin once opined that there is no hope for them.” “It seems that a Marxist intervention has failed to galvanize a genuine class struggle because of racial divisions.” 3/
