Authors
1
PhD student, Department of Philosophy of Education, Science and Research Unit, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2
Full Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Amin University, Tehran, Iran
3
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Amin University, Tehran, Iran.
4
Full Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Shahid Rajaee Faculty of Education, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Critical education is a fundamental approach to education that
seeks to change the existing unfair structure in society by using
democratic and active approaches to learning. Its focus is on
dialogue instead of knowledge transfer, and its goal is to
empower individuals and groups to create social changes. The
origin of this approach is the Frankfurt school's critical theory,
postmodern currents and modern sociology, on the other hand,
the thoughts of its thinkers are in response to views such as
positivism, conservatism and neoliberalism. The focal point of
the educational model of this perspective is the development
of anti-authoritarianism, a dialogic and interactive approach,
which aims to examine the issues of power, inequality and
oppression, which is possible through political and social
criticism of everyday life in the curriculum. The researcher
believes that critical education has one of the important models
of social education. Therefore, in this article, using the method
of "conceptual analysis" of the type of "evaluation of the
concept structure", the conceptual structure underpinning the
theory of critical education and training was analyzed and
according to the foundations, principles and educational
methods of critical education and training, the implications It
was discovered on social education
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