Your responsibilities as teachers at this community college are very important in training the dedicated students who attend your school. As an aging baby boomer approaching retirement, and no doubt like some of you here today, I recognize the importance of providing our young adults with opportunities for growth and experiential learning that will affect not only their lives, but everyone else's. them. It is this distinguished group of graduates who will become our leaders, policy makers, doctors, lawyers and businessmen. The emphasis on learning by moving towards a learner-centered approach and away from a teacher-based approach will become increasingly important for this new generation of learners. Critical pedagogy is defined by philosophical education specialist Henry Giroux (Critical Pedagogy, 2011) as “an educational movement”. , guided by passion and principle, to help students develop a consciousness of freedom, recognize authoritarian tendencies, and connect knowledge with power and the ability to act constructively.” Many of us who were students in the past only know the traditional methods of teaching. What a critical teaching approach can do is create a learning environment for individuals who have been disenfranchised by traditional teaching methods because of their race, gender, sexual orientation , their religious or cultural beliefs. Such an environment promotes the ability to think critically and reflect. The feminist approach is a method of critical pedagogy. I will explain the roots of critical pedagogy in the feminist approach. I will then discuss feminist pedagogy and its practical applications in the classroom. Finally, I will demonstrate that it is not exclusively about or a question of...... middle of article ......gress: Education as the practice of freedom, London: Routledge. Hudalla, J. (2005). Transform my program, transform my class. EdChange and the Multicultural Pavilion. Retrieved December 1, 2011, from http://www.EdChange.org/multiculturalShrewsbury, C. (1997). What is feminist pedagogy? Women's Studies Quarterly, 25 (1,2), pp.166-173. Smith, M. K. (2002). Paulo Freire and informal education. The encyclopedia of informal education. Retrieved December 1, 2011, from http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htmStage, F., Muller, P., Kinzie, J, Simmons, A. (1998). Creating Learning-Centered Classrooms: What Does Learning Theory Say? George Washington University. Washington, DC. Waller, A. (2005). What is feminist pedagogy and how can it be used in CSET teaching? Accessed November 27, 2011 from http://fie-conference.org/fie2005/papers/1585.pdf