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Some discourses are quite easily seen and operate fairly openly, such as the discourses of schools which contains the belief systems, set language, behaviours rules and detentions. The discourse is will understood by teachers and students, although the students don't control it. Society polices the boundaries but covers up the deeper levels of the discourse.

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Ways of thinking that are set up the culture of the language we use to experience our world. A discourse is the social process of making and producing sense through language.

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The application of critical theory in education generally rejects idealist, elitist, and oppressive elements of pedagogy, frequently taking the critical viewpoint that modern schooling is largely curriculum-driven and fragmented by discipline, having abandoned older, traditional moral and ethical pedagogical practices.

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The critique of ideology is a concept in critical theory. It entails the submission of received understanding to critical reappropriation for the purpose of human emancipation. An important part of ideology critique has to do with “looking suspiciously at works of art and debunking them as tools of oppression.”

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Gender schema theory was formally introduced by Sandra Bem in 1981 as a cognitive theory to explain how individuals become gendered in society, and how sex-linked characteristics are maintained and transmitted to other members of a culture.

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Media theory refers to the complex of social-political-philosophical principles which organize ideas about the relationship between media and society. Within this is a type of theory called `normative theory', which is concerned with what the media ought to be doing in society rather than what they actually do. In general, the dominant ideas about the obligations of mass media will be consistent with other values and arrangements in a given society.

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Critical race theory is a theoretical framework in the social sciences that uses critical theory to examine society and culture as they relate to categorizations of race, law, and power

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Culture theory is the branch of comparative anthropology and semiotics (not to be confused with cultural sociology or culturalstudies) that seeks to define the heuristic concept of culture in operational and/or scientific terms.

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Equity and equality are two strategies we can use in an effort to produce fairness. Equity is giving everyone what they need to be successful. Equality is treating everyone the same. Equality aims to promote fairness, but it can only work if everyone starts from the same place and needs the same help.

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the advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.

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The reification (in the context of critical theory) of something most commonly suggests that something is being raised up on a pedestal to the point where it becomes god-like and therefore not open to contestation.

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Human estrangement or isolation. Feeling that you have no connection to people or society in general.

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The working-class. Horheimer hoped that critical theory would provide this group a means of revolutionary action (Bronner, 2011).

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Being included within a group or structure. A principle that should inform decision making in society, education, etc.

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The ability to influence/control others or events.

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The state of being free. Power to act, speak, and think as one desires. Independence.

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A school of thought that encourages reflection on and critique of society as a whole in order to achieve progressive social change.

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A system of human organisation that enables security, continuity, order, and identity for its members.

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An economic system where business, resources, and industry are privately owned.

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A system of beliefs held by a group or society that informs superstructure. i.e. things that inform social, cultural, economical, political systems/structures/institutions etc.

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Marxism is a very specific approach (originally economic in nature) that sought to explain how production involved specific power relations between the economic haves and the economic have-nots.

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Things people accept as true or certain to happen despite the absence of evidence.

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The study of humans in their societies both historical and present.