A controversial new education bill in yes Arizona presents a clash between two bad paradigms.
The loud debate over the recently passed Arizona House Bill 2281 which bans from the public schools ethnic studies courses that promote race consciousness is a clash between two bad paradigms.
The first paradigm is embedded in and configures the bills targeted program the Mexican American Studies Department of the Tucson Unified School District which its Web site tells us adheres to the Social Justice Education Project model. That model includes a counter-hegemonic curriculum" and a pedagogy based on the theories of Paulo Freire." Freire a Brazilian educator is the author of the widely influential book Pedagogy of the Oppressed."
Freire argues that the structures of domination and oppression in a society are at their successful worst when the assumptions and ways of thinking that underwrite their tyranny have been internalized by their victims: The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradictions of the concrete existential situation by which they were shaped." If the ideas and values of the oppressor are all you ever hear they will be yours that is what hegemony means and it will take a special and radical effort to liberate yourself from them.
more... http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/arizona-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/?ref=opinion
A controversial new education bill in yes Arizona presents a clash between two bad paradigms.
The loud debate over the recently passed Arizona House Bill 2281 which bans from the public schools ethnic studies courses that promote race consciousness is a clash between two bad paradigms.
The first paradigm is embedded in and configures the bills targeted program the Mexican American Studies Department of the Tucson Unified School District which its Web site tells us adheres to the Social Justice Education Project model. That model includes a counter-hegemonic curriculum" and a pedagogy based on the theories of Paulo Freire." Freire a Brazilian educator is the author of the widely influential book Pedagogy of the Oppressed."
Freire argues that the structures of domination and oppression in a society are at their successful worst when the assumptions and ways of thinking that underwrite their tyranny have been internalized by their victims: The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradictions of the concrete existential situation by which they were shaped." If the ideas and values of the oppressor are all you ever hear they will be yours that is what hegemony means and it will take a special and radical effort to liberate yourself from them.
more... http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/arizona-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/?ref=opinion
