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For my social justice event Watched the movie He Named Me Malala .  It is a fairly recent release as it was released in October of 2015 in Germany, the movie also won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.  The film, a documentary, follows Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai who became well known around the world for speaking out about the inequalities of girl’s education in Pakistan.  Since she did speak out and go against the social and cultural norms and brought attention to the world the terror group called the Taliban decided they try to kill her for speaking out, shooting her in their assignation attempt.  Despite their best attempts the bullet did not kill her and she and her family were moved to Britain where she began to emerged as a head advocate for children’s and women’s rights in the Middle East, later receiving the Nobel Peace Prize becoming the youngest ever Noble Peace Prize Laureate. I feel as though this movi...

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“Empowering education, as I define it here, is a critical-democratic pedagogy for self and social change.  It is a student-centered program for multicultural democracy in school and society. It approaches individual growth s an active,cooperative, and social process, because the self and society create each other.”  This quote stuck out to me because I feel as though our time spent in this fned class is meant to open our eyes to the flaws of the education system in which we as current students want to be a part of.  We are forced to be made aware of the inequalities faced everyday by many students nationwide and are given the tools to explore the required material and turning the normalized learning into empowering learning therefore correct the flaws in the system and allowing students to have a better learning experience than that of students before them. “The difference between empowering and traditional pedagogy has to do with the positive or negative feelings ...

Tracking:Why Schools Need to Take Another Route  is written by Jeanie Oakes.  In this writing piece Oakes talks about the educational method of grouping and tracking and how it can have many negative affects on a majority population of students as well as propose possible alternative teaching styles.  “ One fact about tracking is unequivocal: tracking leads to substantial differences in the day-to-day learning experiences students have at school.”  This can also be the start to the forming of a social hierarchy in which the higher level groups feel and seem more important then the groups of students who were in average classes or classes that were slower than the higher level classes.   As Oakes also writes that based on personal observation that the higher level classes received a higher grade education therefore better preparing them for further schooling that their fellow students in lower level classes.  Jeanie Oakes then goes on to write to teachers ...

While in my site placement I have few significant situations that drew me to a writing that have been read in the class yet there were the few.  One author that I can relate to through my experience is Delpit and her codes of power.  OF course my class has rules  that the students are expected to follow as well as the expectation for the students to listen o the teacher and follow he given directions without doubt.  There are also more subtle codes of power as the class has each student trusted with a specific task around the class, such as door holder or paper collector, there are clearly jobs that students want more than others and they also might see certain tasks as more important than others.  Another example of a concept I can connect my site placement to is SCWAAMP.  I am placed in a second grade classroom, the students in my class are just starting to get old enough to compare what they have to others and feel embarrassed or upset if they don't e...

In “Citizenship in School:Reconceptualizing Down Syndrome “, written by Christopher Kliewer one of the main ideas towards the middle of the assigned chapter was about how the mainstream society view students with special needs versus the reality of the situation.  A student by the name of Lee is used as an example.  Lee was a student who had Trisomy 21 in a class of 24 “normal” students and 2 other special needs students.  Lee’s teacher said that if a guest were to walk in the room and were informed of the social needs students present, the guest would not be able to pick out the special needs students aside from physical characteristics.  This example helped show that behind the outside appearance of a person or a student everyone’s intellectual capacity is similar.  “Lee is, in a sense, in a way he is branded.  People see him.  They see down syndrome.  They see mental challenge, retardation, whatever you want to call it.  Thats what they s...