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Afro-centric School Debate Pierre Bourdieu
Afro-Centric schools are a life preserver that is being offered up by one of many ethnic groups struggling in the stormy seas of Canada’s public school system. Without the support of a much larger rescue craft that has to come in the form of a major overhaul of curriculum, the current state of the Canadian public schools will soon move from individual “Mayday” calls to something much worse.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Darryl
Leroux. 3360 Harry
Reddin
Reflection # 5
Snakes and Ladders-A Performed
Ethnography
Snakes and Ladders is a “performed ethnography” based on data from an empirical
study on anti-homophobia education that tells the story of what happens when
high school teachers and students in a fictional Canadian high school attempt
to put on a Pride Day at their school. Critical
pedagogy defined is the relationships between teaching and learning and is a
continuous process of unlearning, learning, relearning, reflection, evaluation,
and the impact that these actions have on the students, in particular students
whom have been historically and continue to be disenfranchised by what they
call "traditional schooling."
Tara Goldstein’s work fits this bill exactly and is an ideal example of
critical pedagogy at work.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Reflection 4
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Reflection #4
Michel Foucault on Education
When you hear Michel Foucault’s name you tend to automatically catalogue him under the category of
knowledge and power relations. Roger Deacon attempts break away and focus on
three educational aspects with regard to Foucault’s works and separates his
theatrical overview from others by focusing on the past, present and future of schooling. Roger
Deacon is successful in developing the implications of Foucault’s work but
admittedly just scrapes at the first layers of this great theorists
multi-faceted perspective. Deacon is effective when he further breaks these
timeframes from a negative orientated techno-political rise of education, to a
positive phase of entrenchment and expansion phase. Although this theoretical
overview focuses on education, in true Foucault style Deacon is drawn back into
the moral framework and underlying power relations involved in these
relationships making his attempt to separate education and the power
relationship less forceful.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Reflection 3
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Banking vs.
Problem Posing Education
The banking method
or the deposit of money into bank account is commonly used to describe the
relationship between teacher and student. Another common metaphor used is, a
students mind is an empty receptacle where the teacher deposits information. Problem-posing education is a Freire concept
which breaks with the aforementioned vertical pattern characteristic of the
banking education method posing the new teacher-student with students-teacher
relationship. The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who
is himself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught
also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.
Reflection 2
Darryl Leroux.
3360 Reflection
# 2 Harry Reddin
“Mayday. Mayday”.
Afro-Centric Schools in Ontario
Afro-Centric
schools are a step in the right direction but at the same time are correctly
described as a knee jerk reaction to the real underlying issue of the
systematic breakdown of curriculum in the Canadian public school system. Although the Afro-centric school undoubtedly
causes a divisional rift among ethnic groups, the media and pop-culture incorrectly
sensationalize this school system using powerful words such as ‘segregation’ , dangerously
digging up bones from the past that
carry negative connotations with them. The quick fix of these Afro-Centric schools
is not enough; it is merely a band aid solution that doesn’t hold the school
boards accountable for the last 30 years of neglect. It is commendable that the Afro-Centric
ethnicity has taken matters into their own hands but the Afro-Centric school falls
short of getting to the structural damage caused by curriculum failures and
stand out as individuals and misfits that go against the grain of Canada ’s
multicultural identity.
Reflection 1
Darryl Leroux.
3360 Reflection
# 1 Harry Reddin
Gender-Based Cultural Capital
I believe gender-based cultural capital has impacted my
education, specifically due to
society’s beliefs and expectations bestowed upon me from a very young age. This
phenomenon is also referred to as social reproduction and this process began for me the
moment I exited the womb. Bourdieu focuses on cultural reproduction, particularly the
concept of habitus, where gender is embedded into education, as he refers to as a pillar of
cultural capital. This deeply rooted thinking process and hegemonic attitudes have affected
my education form my early childhood to my entering the workforce.
society’s beliefs and expectations bestowed upon me from a very young age. This
phenomenon is also referred to as social reproduction and this process began for me the
moment I exited the womb. Bourdieu focuses on cultural reproduction, particularly the
concept of habitus, where gender is embedded into education, as he refers to as a pillar of
cultural capital. This deeply rooted thinking process and hegemonic attitudes have affected
my education form my early childhood to my entering the workforce.
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