Hi Yesim. Thank you for your comment. I have not read anything from Vygotsky, so I can’t comment on that, but you sure whet my appetite to find out more about his ideas. And I agree with you: a generation of students fully trained in critical thinking could lead to some convulsive days with out current system.
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Hi Yesim. Thank you for your comment. I have not read anything from Vygotsky, so I can’t comment on that, but you sure whet my appetite to find out more about his ideas. And I agree with you: a generation of students fully trained in critical thinking could lead to some convulsive days with out current system.
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I like the idea of bridging differences, but I’m not sure I buy it. By trying to be “colorblind” or not see male or female, we end up reverting to the default (in America it’s the white, straight, cisgender, middle-class man) many times. I think this is where the idea of intersectionality comes in – respecting differences while understanding the ways in which those differences play out in our lived experiences.
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I like the idea of bridging differences, but I’m not sure I buy it. By trying to be “colorblind” or not see male or female, we end up reverting to the default (in America it’s the white, straight, cisgender, middle-class man) many times. I think this is where the idea of intersectionality comes in – respecting differences while understanding the ways in which those differences play out in our lived experiences.
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Hi Akin, thank you for explaining the similar phenomenon in the west. Hope the education environment is improving worldwide and students can get better education.
Hi James. Recently in another pedagogy class it was mentioned that at about age 19 students are ready for critical thinking learning. I do not know much about cognitive development, but that milestone of 19 y.o. pretty much lines up with college education. In which case, yes, your point about sme basic initial content must be taught – the traditional way I suppose? And I also agree with your last sentence: teaching students to think critically can be challenging when they have been raised in the banking system, so they are expecting a regular lecture presentation.
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Hi James. Recently in another pedagogy class it was mentioned that at about age 19 students are ready for critical thinking learning. I do not know much about cognitive development, but that milestone of 19 y.o. pretty much lines up with college education. In which case, yes, your point about sme basic initial content must be taught – the traditional way I suppose? And I also agree with your last sentence: teaching students to think critically can be challenging when they have been raised in the banking system, so they are expecting a regular lecture presentation.
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Hi Bernardo, thank you for your comments. If students ask me the questions that I do not know or give me comments, I will be honest with them and talk with them with an open heart. Partially because I want to be a good educator, the other reason is that I am poorly at pretending. I would be very awkward in front of my students.
“Effective pedagogy must be framed within social, economical, and by default, political contexts. Student learning can be more profound if we, pedagogists, guide students to use their knowledge base, curiosity, and critical thinking to break limitations of our local community, countries, regions, and the world.”
Yes! I so agree with this. I am aware most of my students will not go on to graduate school, so I am thinking about how to educate them to influence the world.
Education “will be used or to foster conformity or to promote freedom.”
So.Much.This.
Doing education (the process of teaching) is finding the balance between the two I think. I need conformity to the rules of the classroom so my lessons don’t devolve into chaos, but I also want to encourage students to feel free to express their own ideas and think through ways to make their own lives more radical.
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