Hip Hop Culture in Education
I’m not up to date on my hip hop culture, so at first I was wondering why this article was important in our readings. While reading it and made many clear and precise points. Relationship building, promoting black history (a topic I am definitely under developed in), building culture in your classroom, are a few…
Week 7 – What Citizen Will you Teach?
The type of citizenship education I remember growing up according to the article What Kind of Citizen? The Politics of Educating for Democracy written by Joel Westheimer and Joseph Kahne would range from personally responsible citizen to participatory citizen. I do no recall any experiences that would of lead us to bigger issues and classified…
Curriculum Development
What should be learned in schools and who is making the decisions on this? This week we read two articles about curriculum and learning and how it is a complicated system and how Saskatchewan curriculums are out dated and in need of change, but the difficulties that arise from making change come down to some…
Be the Teacher you want to be! Grow with your Students!
I believe that we will be able to teach our curriculum in a natural way towards queer and trans people if we leave biases at the door and are open to discussions with our classrooms without placing judgement or making derogatory remarks and comments. On page 29, of the Deepening the Discussion: Gender and Sexual…
The “Good” Student
To be a good student according to “common sense” you must follow and obey what is expected of you. What society, public, or teachers consider the norm for their classrooms. In Kumashiro’s second chapter of his novel, Against Common Sense he talks about, how he became frustrated with students. He assumed that “being a student…