Teacher in a position of loco parents & police

Description

Engage with the class lecture material Some ideas for things you can do in the logs are:

  1. Make connections to your own life and experiences, to other classes or readings, to current events, etc. (If applicable, please reference these other sources.)
  2. Ask questions or pose challenges to the ideas.
  3. Discuss the real-life implications of putting the ideas into practice.
    4.it's about critical reflection! Please do not summarize the readings and lectures.

class material:
----Saturation: When schools treat subjects as its property
• When you put a sponge in water, it gets full of water. If there’s only a little water, not that much will get absorbed
• When the school takes the subject and takes so much of it that it can’t be experienced outside of school
Discussion: Which subjects are less saturated?
• Music
• Home economics
• Theatre
• Physical education
• History (debatable)
• Art class
• International studies

-----Passage discussion: “The banking concept…” (p. 16 from ‘pedagogy of the oppressed’ pdf)
• Teachers are trapped in this situation as well
• Students have no say on what is right or wrong
• Speaks to how teachers treat knowledge as property (give it back to me the same way)
• Learning through memorization does not help you in society
• No opportunity to think for yourself
• To be a good teacher: the better your reputation, the more kids and parents like you, the more freedom you have to do what you want as a teacher
• In the teaching profession, find like-minded people, find support
• Resistance starts with finding solidarity with other people

Sample Solution