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Critical Pedagogy Doesn't Understand Education | OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Ep. 52
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July 8, 2021
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21:05Now PlayingCritical Pedagogy is the name for the Critical Theory of education, meaning both applying Critical Theory to education and applying it in education, as in teaching students to adopt Critical Theory methodologies and ways of thinking. Critical Pedagogy, though, far from just being a problem in that it indoctrinates and programs students to become revolutionary activists who want to overthrow a system that they're not taught to participate in, doesn't even understand how education works. Being obsessed with power and power dynamics, as all Critical Theories are, it seeks to level even the playing field of power between teachers and students, seeking to turn them into "student-teachers" and "teacher-students," in the words of Brazilian Marxist education activist Paulo Freire. After explaining why this is a terrible idea in this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I relate some stories from my own personal experience both in teaching mathematics and in learning martial arts to show just how wrong the Critical Pedagogy approach is. Oh, and I talk about the Cult of Pythagoras, which is interesting and sordid in its own ways. Join me and check it out!
-James Lindsay
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