Comments on: All I have to say… http://www.sehacecamino.com/2007/12/all-i-have-to-say/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:48:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: neal http://www.sehacecamino.com/2007/12/all-i-have-to-say/comment-page-1/#comment-1517 neal Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:53:17 +0000 http://www.sehacecamino.com/?p=890#comment-1517 Of course using terms like remedial and basic assumes that the hegemonic literature and language of the elite remaining in place is a good thing. It also excludes the majority of students from participating in the goods of our society. Yes, to have access to those economic and cultural goods one could say that students who cannot speak the language of power need to learn it, but I am not sure that fits into the freire's idea of the pedagogy of the oppressed. Sounds more like a banking system of education to me. As far as teaching "actual" literature, my "on-level" students have no problem engaging with the ideas in Blake, Yeats or Alice Walker, they just don't do it in the kind of language that is privileged by the College Board ( a for profit organization).<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1517','neal'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('1517','neal','Of course using terms like remedial and basic assumes that the hegemonic literature and language of the elite remaining in place is a good thing. It also excludes the majority of students from participating in the goods of our society. Yes, to have access to those economic and cultural goods one could say that students who cannot speak the language of power need to learn it, but I am not sure that fits into the freire\'s idea of the pedagogy of the oppressed. Sounds more like a banking system of education to me. As far as teaching \"actual\" literature, my \"on-level\" students have no problem engaging with the ideas in Blake, Yeats or Alice Walker, they just don\'t do it in the kind of language that is privileged by the College Board ( a for profit organization).'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Of course using terms like remedial and basic assumes that the hegemonic literature and language of the elite remaining in place is a good thing. It also excludes the majority of students from participating in the goods of our society. Yes, to have access to those economic and cultural goods one could say that students who cannot speak the language of power need to learn it, but I am not sure that fits into the freire’s idea of the pedagogy of the oppressed. Sounds more like a banking system of education to me. As far as teaching “actual” literature, my “on-level” students have no problem engaging with the ideas in Blake, Yeats or Alice Walker, they just don’t do it in the kind of language that is privileged by the College Board ( a for profit organization).
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]]> By: Nancy http://www.sehacecamino.com/2007/12/all-i-have-to-say/comment-page-1/#comment-1516 Nancy Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:32:37 +0000 http://www.sehacecamino.com/?p=890#comment-1516 Well, one of the reasons why I like teaching AP is because I get to teach actual literature and actual writing, instead of remedial, basic stuff. I don't teach to the test per se but everything we do definitely comes in handy on test day.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1516','Nancy'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('1516','Nancy','Well, one of the reasons why I like teaching AP is because I get to teach actual literature and actual writing, instead of remedial, basic stuff. I don\'t teach to the test per se but everything we do definitely comes in handy on test day.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Well, one of the reasons why I like teaching AP is because I get to teach actual literature and actual writing, instead of remedial, basic stuff. I don’t teach to the test per se but everything we do definitely comes in handy on test day.
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]]> By: neal http://www.sehacecamino.com/2007/12/all-i-have-to-say/comment-page-1/#comment-1513 neal Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:07:43 +0000 http://www.sehacecamino.com/?p=890#comment-1513 I gave up on our Texas version of testing years ago. I also have avoided teaching AP classes because of its test, which dominates everything. I have even in a way abandoned "literature." I try to teach my students how to read and write better. learning to think through the mediation of language (whatever way with words they come to me with). I do my best not to reinscribe the power structures: not very successfully I am sure. My hope is that simple literacy can go a long way toward transformation.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1513','neal'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('1513','neal','I gave up on our Texas version of testing years ago. I also have avoided teaching AP classes because of its test, which dominates everything. I have even in a way abandoned \"literature.\" I try to teach my students how to read and write better. learning to think through the mediation of language (whatever way with words they come to me with). I do my best not to reinscribe the power structures: not very successfully I am sure. My hope is that simple literacy can go a long way toward transformation.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I gave up on our Texas version of testing years ago. I also have avoided teaching AP classes because of its test, which dominates everything. I have even in a way abandoned “literature.” I try to teach my students how to read and write better. learning to think through the mediation of language (whatever way with words they come to me with). I do my best not to reinscribe the power structures: not very successfully I am sure. My hope is that simple literacy can go a long way toward transformation.
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]]> By: Sun-day-links « JD2718 http://www.sehacecamino.com/2007/12/all-i-have-to-say/comment-page-1/#comment-1511 Sun-day-links « JD2718 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:59:41 +0000 http://www.sehacecamino.com/?p=890#comment-1511 [...] Nancy doing test prep. [...]<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1511','Sun-day-links « JD2718'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('1511','Sun-day-links « JD2718','[...] Nancy doing test prep. [...]'); return false;">Quote</a></div> [...] Nancy doing test prep. [...]
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