decolonial pedogagy
The teacher talks about reality as if it were motionless, static, compartmentalized, and predictable. Or else he expounds on a topic completely alien to the existential experience of the students. His task is to “fill” the students with the contents of his narration — contents which are detached from reality, disconnected from the totality that... See more
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Through the construct of ‘schooling’, we have designed an environment for conditioning people to see knowledge acquisition as being directly associated with structure (through classes) and success (through grades), when in reality, most of what we learn and adopt as practices is from interacting with the world and through discovering results from... See more
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
The ability and desire for all people to have access to basic education is one of the most outstanding evolutions of human society, allowing us to progress over the last few thousand years to expand the potential of our entire species and support more equitable access to opportunities around the world.
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
For hooks and Freire, the classroom is a mirror of the world. So, when the world struggles with sexism, racism, and the many types of prejudice shaping social life, our education system struggles with them as well. The space for learning can be one of oppression, or one of liberation.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
In his revolutionary work Pedagogy of the Oppressed, published in 1970, Paulo Freire describes what is still the dominant model of teaching today. In this model, students are viewed as empty “bank accounts” to be filled with knowledge by teachers — not as participants who have a say in what and how they learn. This model is not designed to enable
... See moreJoanne Molesky • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
Academics don’t want me to say this… but you’re already a researcher.
Not in the gatekept, prestige-driven way academia defines it — but in the real way knowledge is built:
noticing patterns
reflecting on your own life
making meaning through your stories
watching community... See more
instagram.comThere is no such thing as a neutraleducational process. Education eitherfunctions as an instrument which is used tofacilitate the integration of the youngergeneration into the logic of the presentsystem and bring about conformity to it, orit becomes 'the practice of freedom', themeans by which men and women dealcritically and creatively with... See more
JSTOR: Access Check
The effect of a cultural bomb is to annihilate a people's belief in their names, in their languages, in their environment, in their heritage of struggle, in their unity, in their capacities and ultimately in themselves. It makes them see their past as one wasteland of non-achievement and it makes them want to distance themselves from that... See more
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language, subjectivity, and reality are entangled as a matter of essence, not confusion or indistinction. But the colonial situation makes this all the more complicated. If speaking a language means participating in a world and adopting a civilization, then the language of the colonized, a language imposed by centuries of colonial domination and... See more