Week Seven: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Place Based Learning
1) What will culturally relevant pedagogy look like, sound like, feel like, in your future classroom? In my future classroom, I am aiming to provide a very welcoming approach to education by the different ways that I will teach and provide knowledge within the class, as well as make it a very open and accepting…
Week Six: Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy as a Form of Liberatory Praxis
How can hip hop be used as a tool to promote social justice and youth activism in the classroom? What is the relationship between hip hop culture and the development of critical consciousness amongst students? There are multiple ways that hip hop culture can be used as a beneficial tool to promote social justice and…
Week Five: Curriculum Policy and Politics
[Curriculum Policy and the Politics of What Should Be Learned in Schools] Although curriculum is a fundamental part of the framework of schooling, curriculum decisions and choices are shaped in large measure by other considerations-ideology, personal values, issues in the public domain, and interests. Curriculum decisions are often part of a much larger public debate…