Discourse and Critical Pedagogy

Abstract

Critical Pedagogy has developed as a result of the application of the ideals of the Critical School of sociology to the areas of education and epistemology. As has been mentioned, the Critical family of theory grew in response to the perceived inadequacies of previous ways of analyzing social phenomena, amounting to a link in a genealogy if not an evolutionary chain. It is the objective of Critical Pedagogy to expose and potentially change the structures of schools as an institution of society that promotes social inequities.