Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Process Journal

Monday, January 19, 2015


The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
http://linksprogram.gmu.edu/tutorcorner/NCLC495Readings/Freire_Pedagogy%20of%20the%20Oppressed.pdf
Difficulties: Here you will describe parts of the text you didn’t understand or struggled with. Think about why it is difficult to understand and how you can grapple with it.
Insights: Briefly write down a description of what struck you and then go into what this section made you think about. It is better if you write for as long as you can about a moment that really interested you.
Quotes: Write down quotes that align with your beliefs about education and say why. It will be really valuable when you start assembling your paper. Also, write down quotes you find powerful.


Difficulties
Insights
Quotes
  • "The oppressors use their "humanitarianism" to preserve a profitable situation."
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  • How students are turned into "containers" and "receptacles" to be "filled" by teachers.  Makes me wonder why it hasn't changed.  
  • Banking system takes a child's creativity  which makings less  likely to truly gain new age information since the oppressor sticks to what they have learned which stops them from learning, growing, and becoming a better teacher.
  • "His task is to "fill" the students with the contents of his narration"
  • " The student records, memorizes, and repeats these phrases without perceiving what four times four really means,or realizing the true significance of "capital" in the affirmation"
  •  " Knowledge emerges only through invention  and re-invention, through the restless, impatient continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other."
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