ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that irrespective of the ongoing debates among multiculuralism and interculturalism, dominant and politically motivated ideological seeds are planted into government and school-sanctioned documents. Critical exploration provides an avenue to uncover the latent principles that shape the deep grammar of the existing social order. The social function of the ideology of Positivism was to deny the critical faculty of reason by allowing it only the ground utter facility to operate upon. Positivism, according to Max Horkheimer, presented a view of knowledge and science that stripped both of their critical possibilities thus suppressing ethics in positivist research, eliminating the possibility of self-critique, and more problematic, “the questioning of its own normative structures". Broadly conceptualized, critical pedagogy is an approach to thinking about, negotiating, and transforming the relationship among teaching, learning, the construction of knowledge(s), institutional structures, society, and the material relation of the wider community, society, and worldwide events.
