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Such a high degree of distrust in generally accepted truths will create or perpetuate conspiracy theories.
Critical pedagogists selectively pick icons to interrogate and subvert: for example, Thomas Jefferson but not Martin Luther King.
Many people involved in critical pedagogy have never been involved in serious struggles and have used the field to build themselves and a small publishing cabal rather than a social movement. Paulo Friere, for example, can be criticized for being for revolution wherever he was not, and for reform wherever he was.
Critical pedagogy is, in many instances, a movement in opposition to revolutionary or marxist movements as easily seen in its roots in Catholic base communities of Latin America, created to stave off the potential of class war. Much of critical pedagogy focuses on culture, language, and abstractions about domination rather than criticizing the centrality of class, alienation, and exploitation.
Rather than "liberating" student thought, teachers replace a cultural bias with their own bias
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Such a high degree of distrust in generally accepted truths will create or perpetuate conspiracy theories.
Critical pedagogists selectively pick icons to interrogate and subvert: for example, Thomas Jefferson but not Martin Luther King.
Many people involved in critical pedagogy have never been involved in serious struggles and have used the field to build themselves and a small publishing cabal rather than a social movement. Paulo Friere, for example, can be criticized for being for revolution wherever he was not, and for reform wherever he was.
Critical pedagogy is, in many instances, a movement in opposition to revolutionary or marxist movements as easily seen in its roots in Catholic base communities of Latin America, created to stave off the potential of class war. Much of critical pedagogy focuses on culture, language, and abstractions about domination rather than criticizing the centrality of class, alienation, and exploitation.
Rather than "liberating" student thought, teachers replace a cultural bias with their own bias
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Content pedagogy refers to the pedagogical (teaching) skills teachers use to impart the specialized knowledge/content of their subject area(s). Effective teachers display a wide range of skills and abilities that lead to creating a learning environment where all students feel comfortable and are sure that they can succeed both academically and personally. This complex combination of skills and abilities is integrated in the professional teaching standards that also include essential knowledge, dispositions, and commitments that allow educators to practice at a high level. It is because we failed to fund professional development and pretty much ignored pedagogy that many schools have suffered from the screensaver's disease and found little return on their technology investments.
A series of reports have identified a severe lack of professional development as a major cause of disappointing results, but even these reports define the task in terms of technology and software training rather than pedagogy.
Although state funding for technology-related staff development remains low, teachers across the country are saying that is exactly what they need. Fewer than half, 42 percent, of novice teachers report feeling well or very well prepared to use computers for instruction in their first year of teaching, according to the U.S. Department of Education's 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey, or SASS. And MDR data show that in 23 percent of schools across the country, at least half the teaching force was identified as "beginners" in using educational technology.
Too often technology training has shown teachers how to spreadsheet or Powerpoint while failing to demonstrate how these tools might impact learning in their fifth grade classroom, their biology classroom or their art classroom. Schools have offered few courses that focus on classroom management issues or ways to customize learning to match the interests, skills and needs of the learners. We have seen too little focus on curriculum rich strategies.
Children are Not Hamburgers and Schools are Not Factories!
For several decades schools have been told by outsiders that we could turn around student performance by standardizing instruction and applying business (factory) concepts to schools. This notion is central to many of the strategies for reform imposed on schools by NCLB.
Fast food schooling is unhealthy for children.
Uniform, regimented teaching of carefully scripted lessons is heralded as the silver bullet to turn around the performance of disadvantaged children, even though we have mounting evidence that much of the data to support so-called "miracles" is doubtful.
Fast food schooling is unhealthy for children.
This mechanistic approach to schooling is limited, simplistic and likely to damage millions of students since children are not hamburgers or widgets. Schools do not achieve impressive results by acting like factories or fast food restaurants.
Proponents of fast food schooling claim that poor children respond best to this approach, but the data they advance as proof is unconvincing.
Even though some large urban districts in California using this factory strategy have shown good results on standardized tests that are closely related to their commercial textbook programs, startling results achieved by teaching narrowly to these tests curiously did not reappear on the California results for NAEP (The National Assessment of Educational Progress) - a more difficult, more secure test. This failure hints of virtual rather than real gains.
Aspects of Pedagogy Worth Considering
An effective teachers must spend much time on strategic questions - pedagogy - how to manage and manage well, how to reach child individually and give her or him the lesson needed.
In a single class period, this teacher reached every student at least once.
The cluster diagram below offers a few dozen strategic questions as examples of pedagogy. A failure to address such questions reduces the likelihood that children will make impressive progress.
A series of reports have identified a severe lack of professional development as a major cause of disappointing results, but even these reports define the task in terms of technology and software training rather than pedagogy.
Although state funding for technology-related staff development remains low, teachers across the country are saying that is exactly what they need. Fewer than half, 42 percent, of novice teachers report feeling well or very well prepared to use computers for instruction in their first year of teaching, according to the U.S. Department of Education's 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey, or SASS. And MDR data show that in 23 percent of schools across the country, at least half the teaching force was identified as "beginners" in using educational technology.
Too often technology training has shown teachers how to spreadsheet or Powerpoint while failing to demonstrate how these tools might impact learning in their fifth grade classroom, their biology classroom or their art classroom. Schools have offered few courses that focus on classroom management issues or ways to customize learning to match the interests, skills and needs of the learners. We have seen too little focus on curriculum rich strategies.
Children are Not Hamburgers and Schools are Not Factories!
For several decades schools have been told by outsiders that we could turn around student performance by standardizing instruction and applying business (factory) concepts to schools. This notion is central to many of the strategies for reform imposed on schools by NCLB.
Fast food schooling is unhealthy for children.
Uniform, regimented teaching of carefully scripted lessons is heralded as the silver bullet to turn around the performance of disadvantaged children, even though we have mounting evidence that much of the data to support so-called "miracles" is doubtful.
Fast food schooling is unhealthy for children.
This mechanistic approach to schooling is limited, simplistic and likely to damage millions of students since children are not hamburgers or widgets. Schools do not achieve impressive results by acting like factories or fast food restaurants.
Proponents of fast food schooling claim that poor children respond best to this approach, but the data they advance as proof is unconvincing.
Even though some large urban districts in California using this factory strategy have shown good results on standardized tests that are closely related to their commercial textbook programs, startling results achieved by teaching narrowly to these tests curiously did not reappear on the California results for NAEP (The National Assessment of Educational Progress) - a more difficult, more secure test. This failure hints of virtual rather than real gains.
Aspects of Pedagogy Worth Considering
An effective teachers must spend much time on strategic questions - pedagogy - how to manage and manage well, how to reach child individually and give her or him the lesson needed.
In a single class period, this teacher reached every student at least once.
The cluster diagram below offers a few dozen strategic questions as examples of pedagogy. A failure to address such questions reduces the likelihood that children will make impressive progress.
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