Post10: Empowering Education by:Ira Shor

“He urged teacher to encourage students to questions their experience in school: You must arouse children’s curiosity and make them think about school.”

·         I think this is very true, because if students feel that they are doing something just because they are told, then they won’t learn anything instead, they will just memorize it.  I think it is very important, that teachers associate the material to a real life situation that way it will stick to the child.  

“It is a student-centered program for multicultural democracy in school and society.  It approaches individual growth as an active, cooperative, and social process.”

·         I think there should be more of these organizations, in urban areas.  Mainly because students who live in these areas do not have the opportunity to be active because the streets are filled with gangs and drugies.

“The difference between empowering and traditional pedagogy has to do with the positive or negative feelings students can develop for the learning process. “

·         I think that a teachers should make sure that her/his students have a positive attitude because the more the child is interested in the material the better it would stick to them.

Post #9: Citizenship in School.... by Christopher Kliewer

“Now we know that people with disabilities can learn and have a full’, rich life. The challenge is to erase negative attitudes about people with developmental disabilities, get rid of the stereotypes and break the barriers for people with disabilities.” (kingsley, 1996, p. 6)

·         I think overtime people have gotten use to the idea that people with disabilities are not smart or able to do things like a “normal” person.   I think the reason for this was because prior to the medical revelation, anyone who had mental problems or were not physical able, were look down upon.  However, I think it is time to change that mentality.  As an inspiring teacher I feel that when I have a class that I should educate them, that people with disabilities are not look down on, but look as another equal individual.

“Schools have traditionally taken a narrow position when defining and judging student intellect (Gardner, 1983). The presence of a thoughtful mind has been linked to patterns of behavioral and communicative conformity associated with competence in logical-mathematical thinking and linguistic skills.”

·         I do agree with the first part of this quote.  I do think that schools have narrow down the position when defining student intellect.   My main reason for this thought is because teachers now in days pass students to the next level just because they do not want to have the child in the class.  Also, the school curriculum has changed.  It does not challenge the student as it should; this is not doing any good to anyone.  

“A sense of reciprocity or shared value exists in relationships in which individuals, including those with the most severe disabilities, are recognized as thinking, feeling, caring human beings personalities all their own.”

·         I feel that people who are disable, do not get picked on as much as before.  I feel that this is because other people are getting educated in this area.   And I think by educating children that disable people are use like us that they will help them out instead of teasing them.

Post #8: Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work by: Jean Anyon

"Scholars in political economy and the sociology of knowledge have recently argued that public schools in complex industrial societies like our own make available different types of educational experience and curriculum knowledge to students in different social classes."

• I do believe that scholarships do give need base children an opportunity to study in a higher class society.  Scholarships do give the opportunity for many children to attend a higher education school.

"The four fifth grade teacher observed in the working-class schools attempted to control classroom time and space by making decisions without consulting the children and without explaining the basis for their decisions"

• I do not agree with what the teachers did here.  I believe that children need to know why they do certain things, and why are they assign to do certain things.  This way they do not ask "why I'm I doing this." 

"Creativity is not often requested in social and science projects, either.  Social studies projects, for example, are given with directions to "find information on your topic" and write it up."

• I think when I become a teacher that creativity is something that I will ask all my student to do.  The first reason it just makes the project more interesting.  Also, I could actually see what they know, because in research paper, they could just copy and paste.

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