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Theories of Education: Critical Pedagogy

Key Theorists for Critical Pedagogy

Paulo Freire

Freire, P., Ramos, M. B., Macedo, D. P., & Shor, I. (2018). Pedagogy of the oppressed (50th anniversary edition.). Bloomsbury Academic. (Print Book)
Trifonas, P. P. (2018). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50 years.” Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 40(5), 367–370.

Henry Giroux

Giroux, H. A. (1985). Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Politics and the Discourse of Experience. Journal of Education, 167(2), 22.
Giroux, H. A. (2016). Schooling and the struggle for public life : democracy’s promise and education’s challenge (Updated edition.). Routledge.

Elizabeth Ellsworth

Ellsworth, E. (1989). Why Doesn’t this Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy. Harvard Educational Review, 59(3), 297–324..

Collected Writings

Steinberg, S. R. & Down, B. (2020). The SAGE handbook of critical pedagogies (Vols. 1-3). 55 City Road, London: SAGE Publications Ltd

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