The limits of critical pedagogy
Teaching about structural obstacles to students who overcame them
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12213437 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aurolyn Luykx (The University of Texas at El Paso, corresponding author), Josiah Heyman (0000-0001-6243-9535, The University of Texas at El Paso) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 346-368 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-8398 • E-ISSN: 1366-5898 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09518398.2012.762479 |
| OpenAlex | W2017652205 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
This article focuses on efforts to critically analyze the social reproductive functions of schooling with a group of pre-service teachers in the US–Mexico border region, and on students’ reactions to these efforts. The students – all female, predominantly Mexican-American – had experienced both educational discrimination and academic success, and heavily invested in the dominant view of schooling as a meritocracy where individual talent and motivation regularly overcome structural obstacles. We argue that the students’ ideologies and experiences of class, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and language predisposed them to resist analysis of systemic inequalities in schools; we also examine the implications of this resistance for their future success as teachers. We conclude with recommendations for balancing structural pessimism and strategic optimism in the classroom, and for bringing students’ personal and social histories to bear on the contradictions between schooling’s promise of social mobility and its tendency to reproduce social inequality
Ethnic group · Ideology · Immigration · Inequality · Meritocracy · Nationality · Optimism · Pedagogy · Pessimism · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Social inequality · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Psychology · Social Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
Exposing prejudice
The dreamkeepers
Savage inequalities
Keeping track
Schooling and work in the democratic state
White Reign
Teachers and Texts
Affirming diversity
Facing Up to the American Dream
Working from Within
Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy
Empowering Education
Cultural Production of the Educated Person
Critical Race Theory Matters
Ideology and Curriculum
Critical Race Counterstories along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline
Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work
Public Goods, Private Goods
Community Organizing for Urban School Reform
Class, Race, and Gender in American Education
Ain't No Makin'It
Understanding Cultural Diversity and Learning
The Citizen Factory
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |