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Excuse Me for Being Critical, but What Do You Mean by Critical

Critical Theory. Frankfurt School and the Institute for Social ResearchOrigins.Horkheimer, Adorno and Benjamin.Inequality and the law.Effect of Nazis.CT in the USA.. Principles of Critical Theory. Self-reflective in nature.Praxis.Question directions and courses of action.Interdisciplinary.H

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Excuse Me for Being Critical, but What Do You Mean by Critical

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    1. Excuse Me for Being Critical, but What Do You Mean by Critical? Ral A. Mora, M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    2. Critical Theory Frankfurt School and the Institute for Social Research Origins. Horkheimer, Adorno and Benjamin. Inequality and the law. Effect of Nazis. CT in the USA.

    3. Principles of Critical Theory Self-reflective in nature. Praxis. Question directions and courses of action. Interdisciplinary. Historically situated. Social justice.

    4. Hold authority accountable. Question status quo. Hopeful, not hopeless! Shortcomings: Helped create derived forms of critical theory.

    5. More Modern Critical Theorists Antonio Gramsci (Italy) Hegemony/Counterhegemony. Organic intellectuals. Paulo Freire (Brazil) Banking education. Literacy as reading the word and the world. Adult literacy. Conscientizao.

    6. Pierre Bourdieu (France) Habitus. Field. Capital. Reproduction. Symbolic violence. Stuart Hall (UK) Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. Culture as emancipatory. Roots and routes. Reception theory. Media literacy.

    7. Forms of Critical Theory Critical Race Theory Key names: Derrick Bell, William Tate, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Richard Delgado. Derived from Critical Legal Studies in the 1960s. Explores the role of race in society. Questions racism and White privilege. Provides a space for histories of people of color.

    8. Describes whiteness as a form of property. Race goes beyond color, it includes class. Discussion of race: Beyond semantics, back to class and inequality. CRT derivations: LatCrit, Queer Theory, Critical Asian Scholarship.

    9. Critical Literacy Key names: Ira Shor, Paulo Freire, Kris Gutierrez. Stems from Freire and Macedos idea of Literacy. Institutional silencing of disenfranchised. Question social, political and economic circumstances surrounding texts.

    10. Critical Pedagogy Key names: Peter McLaren, Henry Giroux, Antonia Darder, Joe Kincheloe Schools as reproducers of inequality Hidden curriculum Cultural capital (Bourdieu) Hegemony and ideology (Gramsci)

    11. Critical Applied Linguistics Key name: Alastair Pennycook. Language is social, political. Language can be hegemonic. Role of testing. Critical Literacy and Critical Discourse Analysis. Views of English (a la TESOL).

    12. Some food for thought (as you read the articles and beyond) Take a walk around the campus. What examples of critical literacy can you see? How can you channel those thoughts in your preservice methods courses? Looking at the articles, how can we apply some of their ideas in our EFL context and that of this university?

    13. References: Beck, A. S. (2005). A place for critical literacy. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 48 (5), 392-400. Benesch, S. (1999). Thinking critically, thinking dialogically. TESOL Quarterly, 33 (3), 573-580. Bourdieu, P. (1977). Outline of a theory of practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Darder, A. (2002). Reinventing Paulo Freire: A pedagogy of love. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Gramsci, A. (1971). Selections from the prison notebooks. Retrieved February 6, 2006 from http://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/editions/spn/contents.htm The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory. Retrieved February 6, 2006 from http://www.marxists.org/subject/frankfurt-school/index.htm Freire, P. (1970/1999) Pedagogy of the oppressed (3rd Ed.). New York, NY: Continuum.

    14. Hammond, J. & Macken-Horarik, M. (1999). Critical literacy: Challenges and questions for ESL classrooms. TESOL Quarterly, 33 (3), 529-544. Kubota, R. (2002). The author responds: (Un)raveling racism in a nice field like TESOL. TESOL Quarterly, 36 (1), 79-84. Ladson-Billings, G. (1998). Just what is critical race theory and what is it doing in a nice field like education? Qualitative Studies in Education, 11 (1), 7-24. Mora Vlez, R. A. (2004). Habitus, field, and capital: A discussion of a teachers understanding of literacy. Unpublished masters thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. McLaren, P. (1994). Life in Schools: An introduction to critical pedagogy in the foundations of education (2nd Ed.). White Plains, NY: Longman. (Selected Chapters) Reay, D. (2004). Its all becoming a habitus: Beyond the habitual use of habitus in educational research. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 25 (4), 431-444.

    15. Shor, I. What is critical literacy. Retrieved February 6, 2006 from http://www.lesley.edu/journals/jppp/4/shor.html Tate, W. F., IV (1997). Critical Race Theory and education: History, theory, and implications. In M. Apple (Ed.). Review of Research in Education, 22 (pp. 195-247). Pennycook, A. (1999). Introduction: Critical approaches to TESOL. TESOL Quarterly, 33 (3), 329-348. Pennycook, A. (2001). Critical Applied Linguistics: A critical introduction. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. (Selected Chapters)

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