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EJ462122 CE525102

Title: Literacy for Stupidification: The Pedagogy of Big Lies.
Author(s): Macedo, Donaldo P.
Source: Harvard Educational Review, v63 n2 p183-206 Sum 1993
Publication Date: 1993
ISSN: 0017-8055
Language: English
Document Type: Information Analysis (070); Journal articles (080); Opinion papers (120)
Journal Announcement: CIJSEP1993

This critique of the current educational system challenges educators to examine potentially dangerous educational practices that foster specialization while ignoring the need to develop critical thinking. Examples demonstrate that, without the ability to interpret the world critically, people are subject to political manipulation, a state perpetuated by the nature of pedagogy today. (SK)

Descriptors: Critical Reading; *Critical Thinking; Educational Practices; *Literacy; *Politics of Education; *Role of Education; *Specialization
Identifiers: *Indoctrination

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