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Coming to Critical Pedagogy

A Marxist Autobiography in the History of Higher Education

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Leaders in Critical Pedagogy

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Critical pedagogies emerge as direct responses to concrete material conditions and historical processes. For example, the word socialism first appeared in England in the nineteenth century as a socio-economic alternative vision to capitalism (Cole, 2008). Enslaved Africans in the southern region of what would become the United States forged a black liberation theology as part of the struggle to end slavery.

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  1. West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania

    Curry Stephenson Malott

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  1. California State University, East Bay, USA

    Brad J. Porfilio

  2. Syracuse University, New York, USA

    Derek R. Ford

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Malott, C.S. (2015). Coming to Critical Pedagogy. In: Porfilio, B.J., Ford, D.R. (eds) Leaders in Critical Pedagogy. Leaders in Educational Studies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-166-3_5

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