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1	Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition more books like this by Paulo Freire, Donaldo P Macedo (Introduction by) add to wishlist With an new introduction to Freire's life and the impact of this book by writer and Freire confidant and authority Donaldo Macedo, this anniversary edition will inspire a new generation of educators, students, and general readers. see all copies from $9.00! new only from $19.95! \| SVS
2	Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom more books like this by Bell Hooks add to wishlist These essays face squarely the problems of teachers who do not want to teach, and of students who do not want to learn, of racism and sexism in the classroom, and of the gift of freedom that is, for Hooks, the teacher's most important goal. Raising many concerns central to the field of critical pedagogy, Hooks connects them to feminist thought, an ... see all copies from $13.95! new only from $19.77! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Critical Pedagogy: Notes from the Real World more books like this by Joan Wink add to wishlist This text is an accessible analysis of critical pedagogy and articulates multiple ways of applying its principles in various contexts. This powerful analysis of the often difficult rhetoric of critical pedagogy argues that critical pedagogy opens the door to a broader and deeper perspective on teaching and learning in the classroom and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $47.17! \| SVS
4	Pedagogy of the oppressed more books like this by Paulo Freire add to wishlist This is Paolo Freire's classic text on education and liberation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.39! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Educational Foundations: An Anthology of Critical Readings more books like this by Dr. Alan S Canestrari (Editor), Dr. Bruce A Marlowe (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology of critical readings (for students about to enter the teaching profession and for those interested in carefully examining schools and schooling) features provocative, engaging authors whose views are politicized, but whose writing and opinions matte - not because they are gadflies, but because their ideas work and their achievements ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $19.71! \| SVS
6	Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education more books like this by Peter McLaren add to wishlist This text is a provocative investigation of the political, social, and economic factors underlying classroom practices, offering a unique introduction to the contemporary field of critical pedagogy. Life in Schools features excerpts from the author's best-selling work, Cries from the Corridor: The New Suburban Ghetto. The text provokes analytic ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| SVS
7	Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage more books like this by Paulo Freire add to wishlist This volume looks at the territory of learning and activism, the essence of human life. This book shows why an engaged way of learning and teaching is central to the creation of the individual, culture and history. The author, Paulo Freire, finds in the emerging global society a new context in which education cannot be indifferent to the ... see all copies from $9.25! new only from $14.84! \| SVS
8	Wheels in the Head: Educational Philosophies of Authority, Freedom and Culture from Socrates to Human Rights more books like this by Joel H Spring add to wishlist This work analyzes the ideas of traditional and non-traditional philosophers from Plato to Paulo Freire regarding the contribution of education to the creation of a democratic society. Each section is organized around an important theme (for example, whose schools transmit in a multicultural society?). The book is organized around the twin themes ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.99! \| first editions
9	Chomsky on MisEducation more books like this by Professor Noam Chomsky, Donaldo P Macedo (Editor) add to wishlist Noam ChomskyAIs prolific writings have made him the most cited educators in history - the only living writer on a most-cited list that includes Plato, Shakespeare, and Freud. Yet until now no book has systematically offered ChomskyAIs influential writings on education. In this book Noam Chomsky encourages a larger understanding of our educational ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook more books like this by Maurianne Adams (Editor), Pat Griffin (Editor), Lee Anne Bell (Editor) add to wishlist Addressing issues of communication and understanding between members of diverse social groups, this text provides a unified framework by which students can engage and critically analyze several forms of social oppression, including racism, sexism, classism, antisemitism, heterosexism, and ableism. It brings together theory and practice through ... see all copies from $4.41! new only from $63.53!
11 view cover	Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope more books like this by Bell Hooks add to wishlist Teaching can happen anywhere, at any time - not just in classrooms but in churches, in bookstores, in homes, anywhere people get together to share ideas that affect their daily life. In Teaching Community , bell hooks shows how complex ideas of cultural theory can be simplified and made relevant to the lives of working people, and how the values ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $19.77! \| SVS
12 view cover	Literacies of Power: What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know more books like this by Donaldo P Macedo add to wishlist Now updated with new material from the author and other leading scholars in the field, "Literacies of Power" illustrates ways in which schools, media and other social institutions perpetuate ignorance. In Boston, twelve-year-old student David Spritzler faced disciplinary action from his school for his vocal questioning of the Pledge of Allegiance, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| SVS
13 view cover	Reflective Teaching: An Introduction more books like this by Kenneth M Zeichner, Daniel P Liston add to wishlist This volume outlines the assumptions and beliefs that distinguish the concept of the reflective teacher from the view of the teacher as passive and a mere technician - a view that teacher education programmes and schools have historically promoted. see all copies from $7.80! new only from $19.59! \| SVS
14 view cover	Critical Social Issues in American Education: Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World, Third Edition more books like this by H Svi Shapiro (Editor), David E Purpel (Editor) add to wishlist This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It provides a focus and a conceptual framework for thinking about education in light of these issues. ... see all copies from $38.86! new only from $46.94!
15 view cover	When Students Have Power: Negotiating Authority in a Critical Pedagogy more books like this by Ira Shor add to wishlist What happens when teachers share power with students? In this text, Ira Shor - one of the earliest proponents of critical pedagogy in the United States - relates the story of an experiment that nearly went out of control. Shor provides the reader with a reenactment of one semester that shows what really can happen when one applies the theory and ... see all copies from $7.35! new only from $20.76!
16 view cover	Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning more books like this by Arnetha Ball (Editor), Sarah Warshauer Freedman (Editor), Roy Pea (Editor) add to wishlist This represents a multidisciplinary collaboration that highlights the significance of Mikhail Bakhtin's theories to modern scholarship in the field of language and literacy. Book chapters examine such important questions as: What resources do students bring from their home/community environments that help them become literate in school? What ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $30.11! \| first editions
17 view cover	Education for Critical Consciousness more books like this by Paulo Freire add to wishlist 'Freire combines a compassion for the wretched of the earth with an intellectual and practical confidence and personal humility...Most of all he has a vision of man.' Times Higher Educational Supplement Paulo Freire (1921-97) was an educationalist based in Brazil and became the most influential writer and thinker on education in the late twentieth ... see all copies from $11.88! new only from $16.95! \| first editions
18 view cover	Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education more books like this by Henry A Giroux add to wishlist The concept of border and border crossing has important implications for how we theorize cultural politics, power, ideology, pedagogy and critical intellectual work. This completely revised and updated edition takes these areas and draws new connections between postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies and critical pedagogy. Highly relevant to the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $39.95! \| SVS
19 view cover	Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change more books like this by Ira Shor add to wishlist Ira Shor is a pioneer in the field of critical education who for over twenty years has been experimenting with learning methods. His work creatively adapts the ideas of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire for North American classrooms. In Empowering Education Shor offers a comprehensive theory and practice for critical pedagogy. For Shor, empowering ... see all copies from $9.53! new only from $21.57! \| SVS
20 view cover	Democratic Schools more books like this by Michael Apple, James A. Beane add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.69! \| SVS
21 view cover	The Struggle of Latino/Latina University Students: In Search of a Liberating Education more books like this by Felix M Padilla add to wishlist Based on a three-year ethnographic study of a class on the sociology of Latino/a society, this book tells the story of how the students navigated academic life in a predominantly white university to construct their own education. see all copies from $8.96! new only from $40.80! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear more books like this by Henry A Giroux add to wishlist Henry Giroux continues his critique of the US political and popular culture 's influence on the lives of our children see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.26! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Critical Middle School Reader more books like this by Phyllis R Brown, Enora R Brown, Kenneth J Saltman (Editor) add to wishlist A unique interdisciplinary compilation of readings that challenge and refocus the basic assumptions about the policies and practices of middle school. This is the first collection of essays that presents multiple critical perspectives on adolescence and middle-level education, including: * critical theory and pedagogy * critical studies of youth ... see all copies from $45.35! new only from $46.26!
24 view cover	Open Season: A Survival Guide for Natural Childbirth and VBAC in the 90s more books like this by Nancy Wainer Cohen add to wishlist Provides fresh insights and new information on the subject, offering guidance to childbearing couples, educators, health professionals, and scholars who value the natural path of childbirth. Cohen's intimate writing style presents a compendium of knowledge on childbirth in the fashion of a "personal letter". Her aim is to lower America's alarming ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
25 view cover	Transformative Learning: Educational Vision for the 21st Century more books like this by Edmund O'Sullivan add to wishlist An analysis of education and educational reform. This book assesses what it means to face the educational challenges of the 21st century, and offers a way for education to develop whole human beings in the context of a sustainable planetary environment. see all copies from $14.50! new only from $29.72! \| SVS

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