Hey Mohammed. It’s a really good post. I think humanities play an important part. I remember in my undergrad University back in India, it was compulsory or us to take at least 3 non technical electives and we ended up taking humanities, economics , arts courses and the things we learned in these courses actually helped a lot in the technical courses as well. So I think you are right that interdisciplinary approach should be be encouraged.

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I feel the same Maha. The course has introduced us to such interesting and creative approaches that we were completely unaware about. I am sure everyone of us will apply these learnings in our classrooms in one way or the other.

I completely agree with you when you say that creativity is shunned in engineering etc. because of the notion that there is a right approach or answer. I think we should learn from humanities and apply that to other disciplines. Having said that I think it depends a lot on instructors/teachers of how much efforts they want to put in to make the learning experience more indulging and creative for students. Great post !

Hey Jon, great post and kudos to you that are already applying what we have learnt in this class. I really like your approach to text books, grading and feedback part. It is important for new teachers like us to actually incorporate these approaches in the classes we teach. Thanks for sharing this and inspiring us all !

I think of all the definitions I have read of critical pedagogy, I can related best to the definition in this post. Its a concise and relatable definition and I especially like the part where you identify it as a life long, ever evolving process. Great post !

I really like the starting of this post where students and teachers are identified as peers in the learning process which is what I think the heart of critical pedagogy. The conclusion is also well written and again resonates the idea that the beginning stated that we all are participants in this never ending process of learning.

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Really cool illustrative post ! The memes were so appropriate to the topic. Some of these are so relatable like the one while TAing. Great creative group work !

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Really good Post, Susan. I think you are completely right in identifying that most of the “old school” professors are not willing to change their ways to accommodate the needs of all students. Heather makes a good point here that more encouragement (or incentives) is needed. But I wonder if the young professors go as well? For many professors teaching is just a secondary thing. I wish that there is some way to change to change this mindset.

Hey Pallavi, thanks for bringing these issues up and relating it so well to Freire’s work. I completely agree with you that teaching is such an important tool in such cases. Would like to know more about your work.

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Hey Nayara, thanks for the comment and congrats for your paper. It is shocking indeed that the Professors even know that the process of publishing papers is biased against women. But this is wrong on so many levels. Why would anyone want to hide their identity? This needs to change seriously.

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