Critical pedagogy

Education as a political issue

What isn’t being talked about in today’s educational debate is the desperate need within our schools for
creating a media-literate citizenry that can disrupt, contest, and transform media apparatuses so that
they no longer have the power to infantilize the population and continue to create passive, fearful,
paranoid, and apolitical social subjects.

The kind of curriculum focus needed in today’s schools is one that actively contests the historical
amnesia created by contemporary cultural forms found in the mass media.