Critical Pedagogy
Critical Pedagogy is attributed to Brazilian educator, scholar and philosopher Paulo Freire in the 1960s. It is the belief that students should question the status quo by examining power structures and patterns of inequity and that edication should be a liberatory process. Students reflect critically on their place within society, between oppressors and oppressed, and take action to disrupt these systems.
Paulo Freire
Critical teachers, therefore, must admit that they are in a position of authority and then demonstrate that authority in their actions in supports of students... [A]s teachers relinquish the authority of truth providers, they assume the mature authority of facilitators of student inquiry and problem-solving. In relation to such teacher authority, students gain their freedom--they gain the ability to become self-directed human beings capable of producing their own knowledge.
Joe Kincheloe, A Critical Pedagogy Primer, 2008