When Students Have Power Negotiating Authority in a Critical Pedagogy

Name: When Students Have Power Negotiating Authority in a Critical Pedagogy
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ISBN: 9780226753553

ISBN-10: 0226753557

ISBN-13: 9780226753553

Edition: 1996

Authors: Ira Shor

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What happens when teachers share power with students? In this profound book, Ira Shor—the inventor of critical pedagogy in the United States—relates the story of an experiment that nearly went out of control. Shor provides the reader with a reenactment of one semester that shows what really can happen when one applies the theory and democratizes the classroom. This is the story of one class in which Shor tried to fully share with his students control of the curriculum and of the classroom. After twenty years of practicing critical teaching, he unexpectedly found himself faced with a student uprising that threatened the very possibility of learning. How Shor resolves these problems, while…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 257
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.89" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments



The Siberian Syndrome: Students as Exiles in the Culture War of the Classroom



Sharing Power, Democratizing Authority, and Mediating Resistance



Escaping Siberia: Students Ask, "Why Come to Class?"



Power-Sharing and the Birth of the "After-Class Group"



The "After-Class Group" Constructs the Unknown



Power Is Knowledge - "Positive Resistance" and "Ultra-Expectations"



Can Siberia Become a Critical Territory?



Siberian Harvest: Measuring the Yield of Power-Sharing Afterword Lewis Dimmick


Bibliography


Index