Critical Pedagogy. Term coined by education liberator Paulo Freire. (Pedagogy is a big word for teaching approach). Local good critical pedagogues the Ragged University were discussing it today. It's when the learner has just as much say as the teacher, on whether they buy what they are hearing, questioning sources, making their own judgment, it's a dialogue. If the teacher wants their view to carry they have to evidence why on its evidential merits. It's a dialogue of critical thinking. Because whenever purported information is given to you, critical thinking on its merits is always the right response. It's part of being careful.
If someone puts on a talk to tell you about autism, critical pedagogy requires that you get a decent go at discussing whatever you need to about it.
Critical pedagogy shows why it's no good to have a public talk on autism given one-sidedly, with just a few quick single questions at the end, by a set only of articulate and economically successful 20s-30s aged aspie speakers, telling their audience "autistics do this", "autistics do that", with no sources cited, no other evidence than that they personally are autistic and say so. As if they could speak for the entire spectrum, with its breadth of ability range, which clearly they can't. That type of autism promotion is not critical thinking nor subjected to critical thinking.
So watch critically the form and nature of events billed as public descriptions of autism, if you choose to go to any.
Maurice Frank
If someone puts on a talk to tell you about autism, critical pedagogy requires that you get a decent go at discussing whatever you need to about it.
Critical pedagogy shows why it's no good to have a public talk on autism given one-sidedly, with just a few quick single questions at the end, by a set only of articulate and economically successful 20s-30s aged aspie speakers, telling their audience "autistics do this", "autistics do that", with no sources cited, no other evidence than that they personally are autistic and say so. As if they could speak for the entire spectrum, with its breadth of ability range, which clearly they can't. That type of autism promotion is not critical thinking nor subjected to critical thinking.
So watch critically the form and nature of events billed as public descriptions of autism, if you choose to go to any.
Maurice Frank
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