Conceptualizing a Theoretical Model for Reflection, Instruction, and Self-Evaluation in the Area of Critical Praxis

• In Event: Frameworks and Tools for Critical Discourse in Teacher Education

Abstract

This paper proposes the need for critical practices in planning, implementing, and evaluating effective teaching and learning, and identifies four considerations of critical praxis: multiculturalism, positioning, critical literacy, and dispositions needed. Additionally, this paper asserts the need for information, training, and reflection in these areas, towards critical praxis. The Critical Praxis Chart is presented as a theoretically-based tool which may guide reflective, instructive, and evaluative practices, including the vetting of literacies for democratic education and the positioning of self and students.

Author

• Nancy Barno Reynolds, Cazenovia College