Category Archives: Critical Pedagogy

Giroux and Simon on punk

Posted on August 15, 2006 by Michael

Giroux and Simon write about punk: …punk culture’s lived appropriation of the everyday as a refusal to let the dominant culture encode and restrict the meaning of daily life suggests the first instance of a form of reistance that links … Continue reading →

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more on ideology and rhetoric

Posted on August 1, 2006 by Michael

After reading Sánchez’s essay (see previous post), I read McComiskey’s response, in which he tries to complicate the dichotomy between Sánchez and Berlin that Sánchez has created. Sánchez critiques Berlin’s ideology as “nondiscursive and arhetorical,” a view in which “rhetoric … Continue reading →

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ideology and rhetoric…

Posted on August 1, 2006 by Michael

I just read Sánchez’s essay, “Composition Ideology Apparatus: A Critique,” which is a nice follow up to Althusser, which I read a few weeks ago. I was, quite honestly, somewhat confused at times throughout the essay, but I think I … Continue reading →

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pedagogy of hope…

Posted on July 31, 2006 by Michael

In his essay, “What’s Hope Got to Do With It?”, Dale Jacobs draws on the theories of Paulo Freire, bell hooks, and Gabriel Marcel to come to some conclusions about the need for a critical hope in education. Drawing on … Continue reading →

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