Re: emotional bonds/education
Robert Bahruth (rbahruth who-is-at claven.idbsu.edu)
Thu, 12 Feb 1998 11:12:19 +0100
There is another book due out from SUNY Press this spring entitled Speaking
the Unpleasant: The Politics of (Non) Engagement in the Multicultural
Education Terrain. Edited by Rudolfo Chavez-Chavez and James O'Donnell. It
is a collection of articles by university professors who meet with
resistence to intellectual approaches to education which divert away from
the banking/lecture model and anchor their classrooms in a more Freirian
critical pedagogy. Instead of employing a "flattering pedagogy" (Morton,
1992) -- to which the rules for success (namely getting an A) are well
known by students who have been colonized into the gestalt via public
education-- these professors discuss how they overcome resistence by
problematizing the initial non-engagement of their students when provided
with a pedagogical space in which to become active rather than passive
participants in their education. I think this book is long overdue as well
and will prove invaluable to professors who are involved in a pedagogical
paradigm shift which can be dancing through a mindfield without deeper
understandings of critical pedagogy.
Morton, D. (1992). On "hostile pedagogy," "supportive" pedagogy, and
"political correctness": Letter to a student complaining of his grade.
Journal of urban and cultural studies, 2(2), 79-94.
More later, roberto