Towards a Pedagogy for Everyone (Not Just the “Oppressed”): The Engaged Classroom Today
How do we update Paulo Freire’s 1970 classic Pedagogy of the Oppressed for today’s graduate and undergraduate students? That’s the question. The specifics (in step-by-step How To detail) of how to create an updated, Freire-inspired “problem-posing” engaged classroom are described below. All of these methods were used in the first four weeks of my course “American Literature, American Learning” as preparation for handing over the design of the course to the eleven Master’s and Doctoral students enrolled. They will be designing their own student-centered syllabus for the second half of our class: first each will post an individually-created hypothetical syllabus and then, working collectively, they will design how the last half of our course will unfold.
is HASTAC suggesting that all educations matter?