This important volume on the critical pedagogical approach addresses such topics as critical multiculturalism, gender andlanguage learning, and popular culture.Critical pedagogies are instructional approaches aimed at transforming existing social relations in the interest of greater equity in schools and communities. This paperback edition on the pedagogical approach addresses such topics as critical multiculturalism, gender and language learning, and popular culture. Committed to language education that contributes to social justice, the contributors explore the meaning of creating equitable and critical instructional practices, by exploring diverse representations of knowledge. In addition, recommendations are made for further research, teacher education, and critical testing.

‘… this is an informative, wide ranging survey of work addressing critical language education and, as such, is useful both as a reference for both the academic and the teacher educator …‘.Journal of Education for Teaching