Both "What Are We Seeking to Sustain Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy?" and "The Silenced Dialogue" voice frustrations about how the old teaching methods and overwhelmingly white education system can't seem to understand the necessity of evolving the way kids of color learn. The methods that are used for white middle class kids will not work for lower class or immigrant children of color because they have not been prepared for that kind of education.
Going off of this, what are some methods you think will help students of different cultures feel more included? The "What Are We Seeking.." reading mentioned including rap battles in a predominantly African American classroom, though they found some concerns with how vulgar and sexist it can be. "Silenced Dialogue" mentions that schools blame students home life too much. Is some kind of compromise possible for a solution to improve students cultural education?
To my understanding it would be hard to try to come up with a method that could benefit every student the same way especially for colored students. As you mentioned, teachers used rap to help the students understand the lesson. It was sexist and for most people of color their culture is already very sexist. Even if you do find a method it depends on the school as well because in the "Silenced dialogue" reading the teacher decided to teach her own way for the students and unteach what the white teacher had thought and doing that could make the students more confused on subjects. Which to me was not the right thing to do. It was and wasn't in a way because if the student did get confused all it did was pull the student back instead of forward in his education.
ReplyDeleteI also do blame students' homes for the education gap not to a full extent because the education system should teach them better than their parents, but most parents education don't pass high school especially for people of color. Compared to white parents who probably most likely passed high school and finished college or some college compared to people of color who only have some percent of parents going to college. Which is why I can see they could blame the students home for the gap, but to me I would blame the lack of motivation from the students home.
Intersectional ways of thinking in the classroom are vital. If we bring up more perspectives into the classroom, we have a wider range of understanding.
ReplyDeleteIn having a wider range of understanding, we learn to look at education through intersectional lenses. Intersectionality is something that is becoming very prominent. We thrive from learning from one-another, so we’ll develop critical thinking and positive classroom environment!
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