Carrie’s TEBlog

I agree with Amy that critical pedagogy and thinking are quite similar. I do believe that one cannot exist without the other. I think that a lot of critical pedagogy depends on the basis of critical thinking. Critical pedagogy is about taking critical thinking’s drive to find evidence and reasoning to explain the world and transforming it into action to change it. In general, I feel theories and philosophies all to some degree play of each other. Newer ones are fine tunings of older ones, while opposing philosophies define much of their beliefs on the opposite of the other. In general to have a true theory or philosophy, one must understand how the others work as well. Without knowledge of other existing ideas, there is no true basis for a belief. Critical thinking and pedagogy are describing the same main facts about the world; therefore, they are quite similar. If you got rid of one of the ideas it would simply fall into the other or be exposed over time. Philosophies grow from each other; it just takes someone to define a new one. People who are thinking about the world as described by both critical thinking and pedagogy, know both ideas and need both to support their own thoughts.