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Bigelow, a secondary school teacher in Portland, Oregon, believes that public schooling in the United States serves social and economic class interests very unequally, and that one justifiable response for the educator is to help equip students to understand and critique the society in which they live. This article portrays students and teachers engaging in the kind of structured dialogue that Bigelow says is essential to the critical pedagogy he employs.
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William Bigelow (1990) studied this question.
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