The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of
Critical Pedagogy to the classroom teacher - the person who
literally spends his or her life and energies in direct
interactions and relationship with the students in the public
schools - and to offer examples of Critical Pedagogy itself as
implemented in the classroom. This writer is at heart an
elementary teacher, and is well aware of the many demands placed
on teachers today such as standardized testing; the constant
paper mill of reports and documentations; the domİnant,
conservative philosophy of education in which the structure of
our schools is established: how schools are organized, the
arrangement of the typical classroom, the state mandated
curriculum and textbooks, the standardized assessment of
teachers’ teaching abilities, the concept of the teacher as the
authoritarian giver of knowledge and the student as the passive
receiver. These aspects of education will be addressed, analyzed
and evaluated in relation to freedom, oppression, and demo