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Journal One   Finally the day has come, its my first day at my service learning placement.  Unlike many of my peers I choose my own school instead of getting placed in an unfamiliar and somewhat random school placement.  The school I am placed in is also the school in which I attended 4th and 5th grade and had the first really good school experiences in my life.   As I make my way to the placement i cant stop entertaining all the thoughts and questions going through my head like what if my kids are afraid to open up to me or what if i make a fool of myself in front of the class.  When I get to the school a wave of nostalgia washed over me .  I went through the typical visitor protocol at a school, I buzzed to gain access to the school, I signed in as a visitor and gave my ID to the office.  Next was the task of finding my class, the secretary that assisted me provided me with a very rapid and confusing route to get to my teachers class so I was ...

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 ...