Essays on Pedagogy

Critical pedagogy is an ideal of democratic schooling which aims to challenge inequity and is committed to social justice. Critical pedagogy aims to challenge inequality through uncovering, learning, and then challenging systems of oppression. Critical pedagogy also relies upon the assertion that difference is socially...

Don Lorenzo Milani was born into a very privileged family in Florence. Milani’s father was a University pro-fessor, his grandfather an archaeologist of repute and his great grandfather an internationally renowned philologist. Milani was certainly not religiously influenced by his parents. His mother declared herself...