Critical pedagogy… what does it mean? To me, as a teacher, it means facilitating lessons and units that incorporate big ideas and worldly views. To prompt my students to think in various ways and not take things at face value. As a mother it means talking to my daughters about accepting others differences and sharing my love of various cultures.
The assigned readings embellished on critical pedagogy wonderfully. Olivia Gude (2009) states in “Art Education for Democratic Life” that if our schools are restrictive and don't allow for opportunities in creative expression that our individuals will be susceptible to totalitarian control! (pp. 7) I cringe at the thought of sheeple. Gude also states how democracy needs individuals to be open minded, individuals that can walk in others shoes. That way they can contribute to collective decision making. (pp. 10) With all that has been happening politically this is becoming more important than ever in my curriculum. I want to work at nurturing students to become active citizens who will do deeds for the greater good, not just things that line their bill fold. Just the other day I had my photography students watch the TED TALK, JR My wish: Use art to turn the world inside out. They loved how relevant it is to our society and how the media doesn't always have the full story. Next we are considering if we can develop the main idea of standing up for what we believe in to create our own project. A personal goal I have for my teaching is to expand the radius of my students learning influence. I am working at slowly increasing the boundaries of what our students are learning in the art classroom to share with the school, families, and community. Nagda (2003) exclaims in “Transformative Pedagogy for Democracy and Social Justice” that through their research of active forms of learning that students who can actually practice what they are learning can be extremely influential in developing their understanding of action in resolving intergroup conflicts. (pp. 187) I now want to incorporate more multicultural educational content into my lessons so that students can then bring a broader range of knowledge home to share and hopefully and gradually change our community for the better.
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