EDEC 248 Chapter Notes -Critical Pedagogy, Hidden Curriculum, Cultural Capital

• School: McGill University
• Department: Curriculum and Instruction
• Course: EDEC 248
• Professor: Lerona Dana Lewis

Document Summary

The politics of teaching teachers bring common sense & taken-for-granted knowledge to school ideology set of beliefs & values held by a group/society usually based on interpretation of the past with prescriptions of policy for the future. Weber broadens marx"s notion to include idea that ideology & control more powerful/effective when cloaked in beliefs making them appear legitimate through education system. View culture as way of life & form of production involving relations of power & legitimization of cultural politics: those in positions of power determine such matters as curriculum certain meanings/experiences. Primary concern social transformation & developing an emancipator or liberatory education: can occur by focusing on educational practices, empowerment of teachers & teachers as agents of empowering students. Philosophy reflects brazil (impoverished society, huge gap between rich and poor) Education = radical project for economic/political/cultural change in which power relations are transformed. Pedagogy = means/process by which curriculum is communicated; essentially political.