Thank you for your post. I really liked how your arguments nicely couple with the video. Very inspiring!
Author: ezgiseref
Comment on Connections, interactions, and everything in between by ezgiseref
Thank you for your post. You have underlined some nice points that led me thinking: I also like the idea that technology helps us to connect with our loved ones more easily. On the other hand, the competition through which this very technology was born set the stage for our departure from our homes in the first place. Nevertheless, it is not something we can reverse. All we have left with is our creativity.
Comment on SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED by ezgiseref
I think you have a good point in critiquing the duality between the banking pedagogy and the problem-posing approach. Without any doubt, we need to think about what we miss to conceive when we reduce complex processes such as teaching and learning to models. Nevertheless, the gap between the educator and the student, the precedent and the successor, an experienced and a fresh mind, and memories of past and aspirations for future requires us to come up with strategies to fill this gap.
My learning experience was closer to the banking pedagogy. Before I was introduced to the concept of critical thinking, all I knew was trying to improve my memory. I was aware that what I knew and how I expressed it had a value in my social and cultural exchanges. I think it is valid for all cultures and societies; however, it is shaped in different ways in accordance with the historical development of social organization within a particular society.
I observe that the form of banking pedagogy is embedded in our pragmatic and economical thinking, which aims at accumulating our knowledge capital to exchange it when necessary. It ensures to reproduce and reinforce cultural values as it is narrated by the constituting ideology. Freire urges us to challenge this structure and rehumanize this process.
Although I am critical of the discourse on humanity and tolerance, I think he addresses an essential dynamic which is critical for all relationships and all forms of social organization. The teaching process should have a horizontal structure, where the teacher and student will shape the process together, rather than a vertical one, in which the exchange value is set by the those, who have a hierarchically superior position. – Ezgi
Comment on I’m Tired…. by ezgiseref
Thank you so much for this valuable piece and reminding that there is no end to the effort to hear the silenced voices and histories, to realize and question the differences in the way in which individuals and communities represented in the social and political environment, and to pay attention to the erasure of differences via language. I hope the Tribal Leaders Summit would bring you strength and energy to extend the solidarity network here and everywhere.
Ezgi
Comment on Are We Creating Roadblocks or Pathways? by ezgiseref
I think tacking between traditional and non-traditional ways of teaching is fundamental since it constitutes the epistemology which we test and retest our methodologies to build a solid pathway. We also need to repair and rebuild if necessary. Thank you for this very useful analogy.
Comment on From Cooking to Becoming a Chef by ezgiseref
Thank you so much for your comment. I believe both activities include research, experimenting, and observation, as well as the reflection of our personal, which is the artistic side. I appreciate the way in which you describe how inseparable our emotions and our reasoning in teaching are.
Comment on From Cooking to Becoming a Chef by ezgiseref
Thank you so much for your comment. I am also very thankful for your contribution to this analogy by the connection you make through this very useful distinction between knowledgeable and knowledge(able) in teaching. Being a cook may be part of everyday life, but becoming a chef is taking up a challenge of dealing with the cuisine itself, as well.
Comment on From Cooking to Becoming a Chef by ezgiseref
Thank you very much for your comment and pinpointing the mastery aspect of the teaching. We all are fundamentally cooks, but what makes us chefs is the extra ordinary training we went through in running a kitchen and creating a signature dish to enhance our cuisine.
Comment on From Cooking to Becoming a Chef by ezgiseref
Thank you very much for your comment. One of the main points I wanted to make was the unique nature of learning and tasting. I am so happy that this analogy grows by the contributions of the commentators like you. Thank you as well.
Comment on From Cooking to Becoming a Chef by ezgiseref
Thank you very much for your comment. A buffet! There you go. You can shape the feeling and the taste of your very own experience through this analogy. The aspect of satisfaction, the experimental, social and affective nature that helps the students to digest the information better.