CRITICAL PEDAGOGY – ONE OF THE FACTORS OF POWERFUL EDUCATION

Sa？etak One of the directions of social pedagogy which in its basis integrates discourse and emancipation is critical pedagogy. The power and strength of this school of social pedagogy lie precisely in the constant discourse between teachers and students. The resources of this approach are reflected in the creation of a positive change in the currently existing didactic triangle. Changing the existing paradigm in learning and teaching leads to innovation and strengthening of the potentials of education. Through discourse and emancipation, critical transformative pedagogy promotes ideas such as equality, justice, human and minority rights, which widens the perspectives and increases the power of education. A curriculum focused on pointing out social issues and bringing students to its centre through interaction, mutual exchange, and thought activation contribute to their intensive intellectual growth and development. In this way, through critical pedagogy, the student is given the opportunity to become an active member throughout the period of its formal education, as well as to think actively about social problems. In order to better understand the theoretical construct of transformative critical pedagogy, this paper will examine the process of its creation, main representatives, basic postulates, as well as the ways of researching current educational reality which aim to further strengthen the process of education in both society and schools