Transforming Teacher Education: Embracing Critical Pedagogy for Inclusive and Equitable Classrooms

[Instructor Name] Name Institution Date Teachers are subjects of oppression in schools and align themselves in the ideologies that they are sources of knowledge in schools, and students are the subordinates. The analogy that teachers are always right has faced controversy hence the need for critical pedagogy and teacher education. Critical pedagogy is philosophical teaching focusing on eliminating the oppression of students. It encourages students to be custodians of their own lives and encourages them to challenge school oppression and society. Teacher educators face adversity in preparing teachers to tackle both academic and linguistic development. According to (Bartolome 2004), teacher educators do not examine the teachers’ assumptions, beliefs, and values which creates unconscious teaching when working with linguistic minority hence politically, economically, and economically subordinate students. Bartolome also discusses the importance of infusing teacher education with critical pedagogy to ensure potentially harmful ideologies in schools and classrooms are eliminated. Ladson Billings, in his book, the dream keepers give an analysis of the methodologies of teaching African American children to achieve culturally relevant teaching. Ladson billings and Bartolome focus