3. • Kerala has long heritage of educational reforms initiated by various
social movements
• We have been carrying out a variety of quality initiatives under
DPEP and later SSA for the last one decade
• We had derived much insight through our field experience
involving new textbook and teacher support material in tune with
the emerging paradigm and trying out them at various levels
4.
5. CRITICAL PEDAGOGY
• All education is inherently political and all pedagogy must be
aware of this condition
• Ground and eucational vision of justice and equality should
ground all education.
• issues, of race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and physical
ability are all important domains of oppression and critical
and anti hegemonic action
• Schools must not blame the students for their failures
6.
7. • Using issues in the class room allows teacher to
foster the students skills of critical analysis and
life long learning that they need to deal with the
changing nature of science in society. our social
life consist of physical, social and cultural
spheres. each of thee spheres has numerous
problems. All these issues have a general bearing
on all spheres of social life.