On Rethinking Our Classrooms: A Critical Pedagogy View

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Published: Dec 1, 2012
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Awareness-raising practices, critical pedagogy, pre-service and in-service teacher education, reflection, transformation

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Yolanda Samacá Bohórquez
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá

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This paper, as its title suggests, introduces some reflections on the importance critical pedagogy as well as awareness-raising practices have in education today, especially in language teacher preparation programs, and how they provide a new opportunity for pre-service teachers to re-think their pedagogical experiences for social transformation. Critical pedagogy (CP) as a philosophy of life helps teachers achieve a better understanding of what teaching really entails and raising awareness fosters reflection regarding our practices in educational settings, starting in the language classroom, exploring on the one hand, what pre-service teachers think and perceive about teaching and learning in the context they are involved in, and on the other hand, how those perceptions might influence their educational practices.

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Samacá Bohórquez, Y. (2012). On Rethinking Our Classrooms: A Critical Pedagogy View. HOW, 19(1), 194–208. Retrieved from https://www.howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how/article/view/46
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Vol. 19 No. 1 (2012): HOW
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Reflections and Revision of Themes

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Author Biography

Yolanda Samacá Bohórquez, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá

Yolanda Samacá Bohórquez is an assistant professor at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. She holds a B.Ed. (Spanish-English) from Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) Tunja, a graduate degree in Pedagogy of Writing Processes, from Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá, and a Masters in Applied Linguistics to the Teaching of English as a Foreign language from Universidad Distrital. Her research interests include pre-service and in-service teacher education. She belongs to the research group ESTUPOLI (Estudios Críticos de Políticas Educativas).

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