The Practical Critical Educator Book

List of contributors. Foreword; A. Hargreaves. Prologue; K. Cooper and R.E. White. Part 1: Critical literacy for a democratic education. 1. K. Cooper and R.E. White; Critical literacy in action: action research in a grade three classroom. 2. C. Edelsky and M. Cherland; A critical issue in critical literacy: the "popularity effect". 3. P. Inglis and J. Willinsky; Soup kitchen democracy: practical, critical lessons in theory. 4. B. Comber; Critical literacy educators at work: examining dispositions, discursive resources and repertoires of practice. Part 2: Critical learning for a democratic education. 5. R.A. Brosio; Critical theory for schooling-education and society: grounded in political economy. 6. B.J. Thayer-Bacon; Shared authority in democratic classrooms; communities-always-in-the-making. 7. W.F. Pinar; Teaching the queer character of racism. 8. D.G. Smith; Not rocket science: on the limits of conservative pedagogy. Part 3: Critical leadership for a democratic education. 9: D. Waite et al.; Duplicity, democracy and domesticity: educational leadership for democratic action. 10. N. De Lissovoy and P. McLaren; Ghosts in the procedures: notes on teaching and subjectivity in a new era. 11. H. Janks with P. Sethole; Reaching out and reaching in: "we had to develop ourselves first, before anybody can develop us". 12. T. Wrigley; Opening the text: voicing a future. Epilogue; K. Cooper and R.E. White; Literacy, learning and leadership: a critical focus on democratic schooling. Index.