Essays about: "Critical pedagogy"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 83 essays containing the words Critical pedagogy.

  1. 6. Representation of Gender and Sexuality in Swedish ELT Textbooks : A Study of Language, Norms, and Stereotypes in Education

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Hanna Bixo; [2023]
    Keywords : Language; gender; sexuality; ELT; stereotypes; textbook research; norm critical pedagogy;

    Abstract : Issues regarding how gender and sexuality are represented within different discourses have gained increased attention in the past decades. Within the field of language, gender, and sexuality, topics such as sexist language, stereotypes and heteronormativity have been continuously problematised as means of sustaining societal norms. READ MORE

  3. 7. What to teach or how to teach? : A survey on the consequences a less detail-controlled curriculum has on English teachers´ choice of English-language literature

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Valentin Andrijevic; [2023]
    Keywords : Swedish National Curriculum; less detail-controlled; English-language literature; critical literacy; critical pedagogy; intersectionality; Half of a Yellow Sun; Swedish Cultural Canon of Literature;

    Abstract : This essay aims to examine which consequences a less-detail controlled curriculum has on English teachers’ choice of English-language literature. With support from the literature review, this essay argues that an unofficial, tacit school canon of English-language literature mainly composed of ten literary works seems to have been established in Swedish upper-secondary schools, despite the Swedish National Curriculum not naming specific literary works educators in Sweden are required to use in their teaching. READ MORE

  4. 8. Facing the Friction of a Totalitarian Government : A critical reading of Orwell's 1984 applying the Pedagogy of Discomfort to themes related to government control

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Hanna Houda Axelsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Pedagogy of Discomfort to themes related to government control;

    Abstract : This study explores the potential application of George Orwell's novel 1984 in ESL instruction and its influence on promoting discussion among students on divisive political issues. The objective is to examine how the novel's underlying concepts of oppression, dictatorship, and propaganda could encourage critical thinking and social interaction among ESL students. READ MORE

  5. 9. Using Literature to Teach Social Justice: A Literature Review

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Lärarutbildningsnämnden

    Author : Maya Juhlin Liedberg; Felix Karlsson; [2022-11-30]
    Keywords : Literature; social justice; literature selection; teacher biases; student engagement; critical pedagogy;

    Abstract : Teachers may choose to teach about social justice for many different reasons. Some of these reasons are required by syllabi and some are by teachers’ own initiative. This literature review analyses and compiles 15 academic articles and books, and 3 syllabi that describe different processes of mixing literature studies with social justice issues. READ MORE

  6. 10. “Is it a sin against God to be poor?” : Marxist and Pedagogical Perspectives on Oppressive Ideologies in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower and its Potential for Teaching Critical Thinking.

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Sofia Schalander; [2022]
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    Abstract : In this essay, I have analysed the novel Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler through a Marxist lens to investigate how ideological oppression is depicted through Capitalism and religion. To examine these ideologies, I analysed Lauren Olamina, the first-person narrator and her half-brother, Keith. READ MORE