Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Classroom Connections Essay


My Outline:

My Philosophy:

                I have to think that the banking model of education is inefficient. We could become more efficient by inheriting Freire’s philosophies and implementing a praxis model in education.

 Paulo Friere states that: The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world.

How does the current structure support and negate critical consciousness?

·         Does it differ between schools?

o   Yes.

§  Anyon

My structure

                Student vs. Teacher-centered environment.

The kids need to be involved in their education. Relevant pedagogy.

·         Are we different?

o   I think cultural communication is necessary

§  How is cultural communication used in the current model?

§  How is it avoided?

·         Yes we are different.

·         Delpit

My praxis

How do I make my philosophy congruent with my praxis?

·               How can I translate theory into practice?

o   What do I see? Compared to what I’m learning
  • Movie project, thats praxis? Is it respected/ aknowelged?
 
 

·            How can I integrate my theory with actuality?

o   Children are in class for 55 minutes? Is that right I don’t think so.

1 comment:

  1. I would encourage you to think about planning for a week, rather than in a fifty minute chunk. That might open up some new territories.

    It seems to me that you are aligning more closely to Delpit than Freire. If this is true, than you would not be a fan of Praxis at all. Take this up more concretely. Time is one issue, but you seem to be gesturing toward the notion of taking up the culture of power. Position this within Freire to illuminate out differences.

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