Henry Giroux, a leading proponent of "critical pedagogy" is unimpressed with the selection.
Giroux's recent The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex (2007):
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Is our children learning?
Despite all expectations to the contrary Obama did not ultimately nominate education professor Bill Ayers as Secretary of Education. He chose instead to nominate fellow member of the Chicago Machine Arne Duncan.
Henry Giroux, a leading proponent of "critical pedagogy" is unimpressed with the selection.
Giroux's recent The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex (2007):
Henry Giroux, a leading proponent of "critical pedagogy" is unimpressed with the selection.
Giroux's recent The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex (2007):
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I'm pretty unimpressed as well...but I'm assuming that you're kidding (?) about any prospect of a Secretary Ayers...at any rate: upsetting, but not all that surprising at this point (though I wish it were)...
Boy the Palin crowd was talking, you'd think BHO had no intention to stop with EdSec, he was going to nominate his "pal" as a full fleged "EdCzar"soon we'd all be reciting the tenants of critical pedagogy in the classroom. instead of a pledge of alligience every morning school kids would be reciting:
* all education is inherently political and all pedagogy must be aware of this condition
* a social and educational vision of justice and equality should ground all education
* issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and physical ability are all important domains of oppression and critical anti-hegemonic action.
* the alleviation of oppression and human suffering is a key dimension of educational purpose
* schools must not hurt students--good schools don't blame students for their failures or strip students of the knowledges they bring to the classroom
* all positions including critical pedagogy itself must be problematized and questioned
* the professionalism of teachers must be respected and part of the role of any educator involves becoming a scholar and a researcher
* education must both promote emancipatory change and the cultivation of the intellect--these goals should never be in conflict, they should be synergistic
* the politics of knowledge and issues of epistemology are central to understanding the way power operates in educational institutions to perpetuate privilege and to subjugate the marginalized--"validated" scientific knowledge can often be used as a basis of oppression as it is produced without an appreciation of how dominant power and culture shape it.
* education often reflects the interests and needs of new modes of colonialism and empire. Such dynamics must be exposed, understood, and acted upon as part of critical transformative praxis.
good to see I am not the only one
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