The objective of the critical dialogues group is to bring together Prescott area educators from middle schools, high schools, and colleges to learn about and discuss critical pedagogy and the ways that it can resist and fight oppressive structures in our communities, both local and global, through education. Many educators already practice critical pedagogy in their classrooms without really knowing it. This group will help educators who are already striving to create democratic classrooms enrich their practice as educators, and produce informed, critical, and creative curriculum, through brainstorming sessions with other educators in our community. The group will provide a space for educators to learn about critical pedagogical theory through weekly group readings, discuss the impact critical pedagogy has in their classrooms, and problem solve around challenges that educators face in implementing critical democratic pedagogy.
The group will meet once a week to discuss relevant readings and creatively collaborate around different strategies. If you would like to be involved in this group please email Courtney Osterfelt at costerfelt@prescott.edu. The group meetings will begin at the end of August, 2010. More information about the day, time, and place will be posted within the next week.
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