Outlines the current situation in critical pedagogy, and examines the relation of language to formation of subjectivity and praxis. How language works to construct and mediate reality and interacts with experience is explored, and provisional elements of a critical pedagogy that has the potential to create active learners are presented. (SLD)

Presents dominant approaches to English teaching as reinforcing social inequality by excluding works considered marginal with respect to mainstream society. Suggests teaching students to critically appropriate the expression of different cultural experiences, providing them with the skills they will need to define and shape, rather than simply…