The past week of class we have been discussing what our current education system looks like and how it has been designed to maintain systems of oppression. Thinking about how Freire writes about transformation of structures and systems of oppression, how might you reimagine education for liberation, humanity, and transformation. More specifically, what might THIS class, called EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES look like from a problem-posing pedagogy (this is Freire's alternative to the banking concept of education) where the learning is rooted in the posing of problems of human beings in relation to the world.
Freire writes, "In problem-posing education people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves: they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in the process of transformation." (p. 83) What would you like to do in this class this semester?
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Sharone Thompson
9/10/2015 08:23:17 am
I would like this class to be discussion based instead of taught by a book. I feel that when students are taught by a book that we do not truly retain the information told to us. I believe that would allow for students to grow in education and mentally. Discussions would allow for students to be able to question things about the world and able them to grow socially. I think in this class we should discuss how humans interact within their environment and also how we may be able to better the environment in which we live. I would like to be able to relate what we learn in class to what we experience in our everyday lives, since many students tend to question how we will be able to utilize what we learn in school since many things seem irrelevant to us.
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Laurie
9/10/2015 08:31:11 am
This semester I would like to learn about society as a whole and the way it affects groups of people. It is similar to the conversation we had yesterday about the way privileged groups like white men oppress the non-privileged group.
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Thea
9/10/2015 08:31:34 am
I would like to discuss how society oppresses the not "normal" parts of people. I've been relating this topic with what i read in my sociology book, the psychology behind the oppressed and the oppressor. Not being able to formally introduce yourself to society because you are not normal is depressing.That's where people get all this abnormal behaviors like being delinquent and unsocial. its because of society.
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Shareese Worrell
9/10/2015 08:31:41 am
For this semester I actually do not have a learning preference. I'd prefer to instead have a specific learning style. Discussions and slight notes are very helpful to me, as well as blogging. Maybe we can discuss the real world and society and how the things that are going on around us are affecting us.
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Nequan
9/10/2015 08:32:02 am
I'm not even sure what I want to learn this semester. I don't have a specific aspect of environmental science (or any science) that i prefer. If I would have to say aquatic biology sounds interesting but I'm not really sure. I'm too used to just being told what we're going to learn.
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Kimberley Sterling
9/10/2015 08:32:03 am
This semester I would like to learn more about the pressure of society to be sexual. For example, teen pregnancy and other things that revolve around pregnancy's.
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Ashli
9/10/2015 08:32:10 am
I would think that the transformation needs to happen in the school system. The way the education is being taught is horrible. I feel as though we should be able to learn from each other but not just only from teachers. The education system is so corrupted where it is just teachers teaching and students having to learn from them and not learn with them. I feel as though that should change and that is why students are so messed up in society because of the way "THE MAN" wants us to learn.
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Whitney Longmore
9/10/2015 08:32:16 am
In this class this semester, I would love to have more exciting conversations as we did yesterday. One of my favorite aspects of this class is that we are able to have voice and speak on things we care about or question. Which is how learning should be, the student should be able to pick or at least have a say on what they would like to learn, this would allow students to be more enthusiastic about learning. The way that the education system is now is flabbergasting. Students don't see the point of getting an education.
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Kenwin Edwards
9/10/2015 08:32:17 am
I would like to learn about anything in this class such as anything science related or something that makes us think outside the box. If not whatever the class decides is fine with me.
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Jonathan
9/10/2015 08:32:29 am
In this semester i would like to learn about the environment and how it affects the world.
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Lyli Josephs
9/10/2015 08:32:50 am
This semester I would like this class to be a place where we can all bring new ideas to the table and help each other learn. I wouldn't want it to be a class where the teacher teaches and the students just listen. In this class I would like to challenge what is considered a normal classroom.
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