"Critical," the Dicey Word Explosion Valuable in Debate

Thinking about Your Own Thinking for Unity

Critical pedagogy is vital to teaching and learning in public and private schools. The word pedagogy has to do with the art of teaching. The word critical, sometimes added to other terms such as race theory, can ignite controversy. Critical pedagogy is essential for teaching in a classroom because it stimulates thinking beyond what literary exists—from analysis to synthesis to evaluation and debate.

That’s right; the concept of critical pedagogy goes far beyond teaching. It’s a real-life application to reading and writing.

Yet, adding it to education—anything keeps the media very busy, too busy trying to prevent using any jargon with it from thinking to theory.

Any term with the word critical attached to it is open to debate. This is a good thing. Debate stimulates critical thinking, a necessary skill for every American to be acquainted with and to implement in their lives.

Applying critical pedagogy to the classroom begins with an analysis of Western philosophy.

Let’s begin with th…