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Critical pedagogy "challenges educators to recognize, engage, and critique (so as to transform) any existing undemocratic social practices and institutional structures that produce and sustain inequalities and oppressive social identities and relations.... [it] is primarily concerned with the kinds of education theories and practices that encourage both students and teachers to develop an understanding of the interconnecting relationship among ideology, power and culture."

This one hour weekly seminar is open to all UGA graduate students.

Meeting Time:	Thursdays, 5:00 - 6:00 pm	Aderhold Room 102
Seminar Contacts:	Amy Hackenberg	ahackenb@coe.uga.edu
(706) 542-4194	Brian Lawler	blawler@coe.uga.edu
	David Stinson	dstinson@coe.uga.edu
Seminar Advisor	Denise Mewborn	dmewborn@coe.uga.edu

Seminar participants will

1. explore one's own beliefs about education with the purpose of developing a definition of public education
2. define the role of mathematics education in this constructed definition of public education
3. understand the tenets of critical pedagogy
4. examine current school structures and practices, and their impact on their participants
5. move towards action in creating a sustained community in the form of an ongoing publication.

   Also

• examine effectual social movements; to understand how to create and sustain social change
• engage fellow math educators in examining a wider variety of philosophers regarding public education
• reflect upon one's beliefs regarding equity, justice, and schools
• consider the influence of political, social, and cultural institutions on our values.

Course Structure

• each week, come having read an article / book exerpt selected by a seminar participant that aligns with a direction generated by all participants
• the lead seminar participant for that week will lead a focused discussion
• during the second half of the semester, we will extend the meetings to investigate the possibility of creating a publication
• we will attend Jo Boaler's talk at UGA on Mar. 30

Final Products

• each person will have a library of articles
• as a working group, we will create an annotated bibliography of these articles
• a further developed plan of action -- including goals for the next semester's course of action, likely another EMAT 8990.

Authors & Researchers in the Genre

Michael Apple	Eric Gutstein	Peter McLaren
James A. Banks	bell hooks	Terezinha Nunes
Bill Bigelow	Piet Human	Donald Schon
Larry Cuban	Joe L. Kincheloe	Ira Shor
Beatriz D'Ambrosio	Jonathon Kozol	Ole Skovsmose
Lisa Delpit	Kevin Kumashiro	Christine Sleeter
Paul Ernest	Gloria Ladson-Billings	Shirley S. Steinberg
Marilyn Frankenstein	Patti Lather	William Tate
Paulo Freire	Daniel Liston	Julian Weissglass
Henry A. Giroux	Donaldo P. Macedo
Maxine Greene

Web Resources

Critical Pedagogy (at Univerity of Colorado-Denver)	http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/crit_ped.html
Rethinking Schools	http://www.rethinkingschools.org/
Annotated Bibliography of Multicultural Issues in Mathematics Education (at UGA)	http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/DEPT/Multicultural/mebib94.html
National Coalition for Equity in Education (at UCSB)	http://www.math.ucsb.edu/NCEE/
Rage & Hope (at University of Texas)	http://www.perfectfit.org/ct/index2.html
Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website	http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/
The Critical Project (at University of West Virginia)	http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/opening.html
Mathematics Education and Society	http://www.congress-consult.com/mes3/
Philosophy of Math Education	http://www.ex.ac.uk/~PErnest/
Network of Educators on the Americas	http://www.teachingforchange.org
Speak Truth to Power	http://www.speaktruthtopower.org

	Comments? Questions? Send e-mail to	Amy Hackenberg	ahackenb@coe.uga.edu
		Brian Lawler	blawler@coe.uga.edu
		David Stinson	dstinson@coe.uga.edu
		Dr. Denise Mewborn	dmewborn@coe.uga.edu