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Gratefully, Frances & Teacher Comrades
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Thank you, Felix Chacon!
Thank you, Felix, for spending time with us tonight! Your insight and humor with our dialogue clarified critical pedagogy and brought us to another level of social awareness and conscientization of reading the word and the world along side our students. Please enjoy our photo thank you to you!
Gratefully, Frances & Teacher Comrades
Gratefully, Frances & Teacher Comrades
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What a great culminating session we had with Felix Chacon. As a result, you were able to delve into some issues and concerns you are experiencing in your own classrooms. Welcome to the perspective of social equity and critical pedagogy and culturally relevant teaching as an educator. This is our world to negotiate with our students. It all stems on building trusting relationships with our students which is a slippery yet rewarding process requiring us to accept the challenge of continual diligence to the distribution of power in the culture of school and the awareness of the multiplicity of perspectives shared by our students, historically and culturally. We need to become more than well intentioned educators to critically aware educators who are free to think for ourselves and question the status quo, engage in difficult discussions of race, class, gender, stereotypes and language. If we continue to perpetuate the 'unintentional consequences' of our school culture without reading the subtextual implications for ALL students, then we willingly and knowingly choose to recycle existing inequities in silence rather than through courageous action.
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