Rocking Your World: The Emotional Journey into Critical Discourses

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Rocking Your World: The Emotional Journey into Critical Discourses is an introductory text that emerged from the belief that we often learn best through personal narrative and story. This collection of real stories connects critical theory and critical pedagogy with personal transformation. It is an experiential primer in how to navigate a developing appreciation of how silent (and sometimes not so silent) machinations of power align themselves along axes of gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and global position (amongst others) to both conceal and perpetuate injustice and oppression.
In this book, twelve authors share personal reflections of how various critical discourse communities have impacted their lives. They explore a range of professional, family and social barriers to personal growth as teachers, professional researchers and everyday people; they give us glimpses into the impact of positionality, the balance between activism and intellectual rigor, the obstacles to teaching critically, and more.
This book would be an ideal complement to traditional texts and would provide countless opportunities to generate the kind of personal introspection and dialogue that can make studying critical pedagogy and other critical discourses a transformative experience. It is a must read for any teacher or student interested in the power of critical theories to transform how we see the world in which we live.

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The Emotional Journey into Critical Discourses
Appreciating the challenge
Pages: 1–9
Rocking My World
Digging out the splinters
Pages: 11–24
From Buffalo Plains to Wheat Fields
Critical thinking in the Canadian prairies
Pages: 25–33
I Am (Not) a Feminist
Unplugging from the heterosexual matrix
Pages: 35–44
“My Future Self N’ Me”
Currere and childhood fiction in education
Pages: 45–52
Walking Back along the Path
Using a self study of writing to appreciate the development of critical consciousness
Pages: 53–65
Challenging Paradigms
Deconstructing and reconstructing my positionality as a non-Indigenous researcher
Pages: 67–80
From Working Class Liberal to Transformative Scholar-Practitioner
Struggles and successes amid the newfound status quo
Pages: 81–98
First Dance
Dance- verb:1. to be an engaged and active critically conscious educator
Pages: 111–122
Activism Where I Stand
Moving beyond words in graduate education
Pages: 123–131
The Hegemonic Consensus
How “liberal” discourse marginalizes critical activism
Pages: 133–145
“Costly Gestures”
Addressing the tension between collaboration and criticality
Pages: 157–164
A Conversation Amongst the Authors
Perspectives on Writing
Pages: 165–176
Educational Researchers and their students.
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