Injustice Rectified

  Identity within Socialization Overall, the majority of this wheel demonstrates the majority of my life involving privilege. This is a result of my race, upbringing, sexual orientation, education opportunities, and socio-economic status. An item from my wheel that brings me oppression would be my gender identity as a female. The privileges I experienced growing up impacted the way in which I perceived the world. It took new experiences, critical thinking, and reflection to change my perceptions.While I grew up with certain habits, values, and beliefs, my experiences have allowed me to be more open minded and understanding of various perspectives. Since my senior year of high school, my perspective has changed due to various experiences with vulnerable groups of people. My education has influenced my perspective on systematic oppression, human rights, and social justice. It has taken heavy reflection to perceive the society the way I do now. The concept of socialization refers to i...

Goals of Education Labaree Public Schools for Private Advantage 3-2-1 3 Quotes -"Schools, it seems, occupy an awkward position at the intersection between what we hope society will become and what we think it really is, between political and economic realities" (Labaree, pg 3) -"I argue that the central problems with education in the United States are not pedagogical or organizational or social or cultural in nature but are fundamentally political." (Labaree, pg.16) -"Like other major institutions in American society, education has come to be defined as an  arena that simultaneously promotes equality and adapts to inequality" (Labaree, pg. 17) 2 Critical Questions -How do politics transform our social and cultural nature? -How can we enforce our promotion of equality to result in action against adapted inequality? 1 Summary Labaree writes about the three alternative goals for American education. These can be summed up as democratic equality, social effi...

  I found this visual to show as a model for the way in which students can learn. The Banking Education Model demonstrates the student on the left who has come to be filled with information. This presents the teacher as the Narrator and depositor, and in turn, the student as the "receptacles" and the depositories.    "Narration (with the teacher as narrator) leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated content. Worse yet, it turns them into "containers" into "receptacles" to be "filled" by the teacher." (Freire, 2018) "Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor" (Freire, 2018) The alternative system that Friere talks about, is Problem-Posing education. This pairs with the student on the right in the model. This concept encourages students to ask questions and to bring their own critically thought ideas to the table. This brings the relati...

I chose this poem to illustrate the concept of De facto Segregation in a modern sense. Although we are not "segregated" in the aged sense of the term, our society has us segregated by our social differences and socioeconomic categories, especially within the education system. I love the last line of this section of the poem, calling out society for this division. This gives us the responsibility of teaching social justice. Hytten writes on the concepts of social justice and how we can apply this within education. De facto segregation is described as a result of societal differences that separate us into groups and socioeconomic categories. Hytten explained the strive we should have towards a democratic education system by teaching students how to develop habits of citizenship. "Given our current social, political, and educational climate, the need to teach in ways that help the student develop the habits of democratic citizenship and inspire them to work for social justi...

The danger of a single story is the huge gap for misunderstandings of a person based on what someone else perceives or knows about "their group", according to one story they may have heard. Adichie spoke on the existing dangers in a single-sided story. Adichie stated this;  “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”   She told a story of her experiences regarding these stereotypes. Since Adichie moved from Africa, her roommate assumed what she knew about Africa, to be Adichie's exact situation. She assumed she lived on a wide flat land in a tiny house with dirt floors, with a lack of education, and a lack of resources.  When in actuality, Adichie's circumstances were nothing of the sort; much different than what her roommate believed before knowing Adichie. Her roommate knew this one story that she associated with Africa. Throughout our...

Critical thinking ; the discovering of answers by questioning the who, what, when, and where. Thinking is a personal action of an intellectual being. The thought is the search for an answer to a question. As humans, we are born with the innate ability to be critical thinkers. We are naturally curious beings who are hungry for knowledge. However, our education system influences individuals to be recipients of information rather than intrigued investigators. Students' ability to create critically advanced questions is discouraged as they conform to the norms displayed by our education system. They stray from independent analyzing and lean into receiving their thoughts rather than creating them. These factors lead me to wonder about alternative ways we can support students in an academic setting, to think “outside the box” and form their own opinions as they reflect on curriculum; to engage in critical thinking. “Critical thinking is an interactive process, one that demands p...