Critical Pedagogy and Math

Math is not linear on Prezi

I found this presentation on Prezi.com I was exploring the website looking for ideas on ways to present my thesis this coming weekend. I came across this presentation in their explore section called "Math is Not Linear". This presentation is amazing and clearly Alison, the woman who created it is a critical pedagogue. Throughout the entire presentation she is advocating for student centered learning that problematizes the ways that we have traditionally thought about math. Whether or not you are a math teacher, if you are an educator at all this presentation will be useful. I can't wait to use some of her ideas in the college classes that I teach on gender and sexuality.

The students of TUSD could use your support tonight!

TONIGHT! February 8th from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Tucson Unified School District Office

Come hear the student voice in opposition to HB 2281 and what our youth expect from TUSD superintendent and school board members.

Open mic and musical celebration will follow.

Presentation This Saturday on Critical Pedagogy

A Liberatory Praxis with Dominant Identities:

Critical Pedagogy at an Affluent Liberal Arts School

This is a multimedia interactive presentation that will explore the fundamental aspects of critical pedagogy. The presenters will discuss the ways in which critical pedagogy is predominantly used to foster the intellectual needs of exploited and oppressed people. Through their experience teaching a course at an affluent liberal arts school, they will discuss the ways critical pedagogy can also be used with privileged communities to help foster a greater understanding power, privilege, and how education can strive to create more just communities.

When: 9:00-10:50am on Saturday, January 22nd

Where: Prescott College Crossroads Center, Room 202

A New Favorite Definition of Critical Pedagogy

This is my new favorite definition of critical pedagogy as stated by Henry Giroux in his article, "Lessons to Be Learned From Paulo Freire as Education is Being Taken Over by the Mega Rich:"

"Freire is one of the most mportant educators of the 20th century and is considered one of the most important theorists of "critical pedagogy"- the educational movement guided by both passion and principle to help students develop a consciousness of freedom, recognize authoritarian tendencies, empower the imagination, connect knowledge and truth to power and learn to read both the word and the world as part of a broader struggle for agency, justice, and democracy."

The Journey: This is What it Means to be a Man...a new series o...

This was posted on the blog site "The Journey: Discussions on the Construction of Masculinity in America" and I thought it would be relevant here as well. This is a news clip regarding a young 14 year old man who stands up for a teacher in a local high school who spoke out against bullying. Click the link below and it will take you to the full post and video.  

The Journey: This is What it Means to be a Man...a new series o...: "As our class and many academics and social scientist out there strive to envision an alternative definition to manhood than the current trad..."

We Need Critical Pedagogy Now More Than Ever

We need critical pedagogy now more than ever.  As public education falls under the control of the elite, as more and more public services, including public education, become privatized, and as standards in education become strategically crafted to serve the needs of the market, critical pedagogy and the lessons that can be gleaned from the work of Paulo Freire are extremely pertinent.  It is clear that public education is no longer a priority or a pillar of democracy worth preserving amongst our government, as Henry Giroux writes in the article "Lessons to be Learned from Paulo Freire as Education is Being Taken Over by the Mega Rich":  


"The profound disdain for public education is evident not only in Obama's test-driven, privatized and charter school reform movement, but also in the hostile takeover of public education now taking place among the ultra-rich and hedge fund zombies, who get massive tax breaks from gaining control of charter schools. The public in education has now become the enemy of educational reform."

The view rest of the article on www.truthout.org follow the link below:
What We Can Learn From Paulo Freire

Some great critical pedagogy links:

http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/~stevens/critped/index.htm


and:


http://radicalteacherblog.wordpress.com/