Sociological Influence of Critical and Social Pedagogy on Young Learners' English Education

Subject Areas : Sociological Studies of Youth

Maryam Kaviani ¹ , Mokarameh Hamidi ²

1 - Ph.D Candidate, Department of English Language Teaching, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran
2 - Department of Social Sciences, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran

Received: 2018-10-01 Accepted : 2018-10-01 Published : 2018-07-01

Keywords: education, Young learner, Social pedagogy, Critical Pedagogy,

Abstract :

Education, by regarding the social and critical elements can be traced back to the 20th century. Critical pedagogy was started out of the need of reforming education in a way that it would acknowledge the influence of the present social and political elements in each and every educational context. Some critical theorists applied ideas in critical theories to education in the society. In this regard, social pedagogydescribes a holistic and relationship-centered way of working in care and educational settings with people across the course of their lives. In actual fact politically and socially engaged critiques of power in everyday life, communities, and institutions are exactly what are needed to develop critical and social pedagogies in language education. This paper aims to study descriptively about the sociological effect of critical and social pedagogy on young learners' English education.

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