Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of EducationThis work integrates the author's Cries from the Corridor, a 1980 collection of diary entries written when he was a school teacher in a working-class and immigrant Canadian neighborhood, with reflections on the fundamental contradictions of capitalist schooling in North America. The author provides |
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