My Thoughts on... Chapter 2 The Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Pedagogy: The why and the how of teaching and learning.
How do we take these ideas and apply them to our classroom?
After reading this chapter of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, I found myself both enlightened and confused. To be honest, some of his professions of education were filled with fire and truth, while others left me with a slightly tilted head and many questions. He was trying to create a revolution, and instill a fire within us as teachers. Paulo writes "The teacher talks about reality as if it were motionless, static, compartmentalized, and predictable." This sentence is something I agree with in being part of the reason that their is a problem with education. We as teachers need to make our teaching applicable to students. Not bringing in situations that are not applicable at all to students. I have noticed this myself in my own classroom. I have students who will completely check out if they think the information will never be useful for them in the real world. If we as teachers begin by making our teaching not only applicable but worth it for our students. Paulo also steps in to the idea of authentic learning. He speaks about how in order to have authentic learning, we need to have authentic teaching. Teaching that we authentically put ourselves in to our teaching and speaking. Speaking is the way we not only communicate but the way that we live. We express and share knowledge on the daily by speaking ans sharing. Paulo expresses how we cannot think and learn for our students, but we cannot make our teaching easy enough for them to learn and not think about at all. We have to challenge our students because they are the ones responsible for their learning. By being authentic in the way that we speak and teach, we can create a prosperous learning environment for our students.
How do we take these ideas and apply them to our classroom?
After reading this chapter of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, I found myself both enlightened and confused. To be honest, some of his professions of education were filled with fire and truth, while others left me with a slightly tilted head and many questions. He was trying to create a revolution, and instill a fire within us as teachers. Paulo writes "The teacher talks about reality as if it were motionless, static, compartmentalized, and predictable." This sentence is something I agree with in being part of the reason that their is a problem with education. We as teachers need to make our teaching applicable to students. Not bringing in situations that are not applicable at all to students. I have noticed this myself in my own classroom. I have students who will completely check out if they think the information will never be useful for them in the real world. If we as teachers begin by making our teaching not only applicable but worth it for our students. Paulo also steps in to the idea of authentic learning. He speaks about how in order to have authentic learning, we need to have authentic teaching. Teaching that we authentically put ourselves in to our teaching and speaking. Speaking is the way we not only communicate but the way that we live. We express and share knowledge on the daily by speaking ans sharing. Paulo expresses how we cannot think and learn for our students, but we cannot make our teaching easy enough for them to learn and not think about at all. We have to challenge our students because they are the ones responsible for their learning. By being authentic in the way that we speak and teach, we can create a prosperous learning environment for our students.
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