"A picture is worth a thousand words."

Blog 6, Chapter 5 - Vocabulary Vitalizer AND Idea Illustrator - Elizabeth

Key Terms:

critical pedagogy: an approach through which students and teachers engage in learning as a mutual encounter with the world; critical pedagogy implies praxis: developing the important social action predispositions and attitudes that are the backbone of a democratic society, and learning to use them to help alter patterns of domination and oppression (Nieto, 1999, p. 103-104)

critical education: expects students to engage in learning with others, to be curious, to questions, and to become problem solvers (in contrast to banking education, domesticating education, previously discussed) (Nieto, 1999, p. 104)

empowerment: the purpose and the outcome of critical pedagogy; the other side of the coin of domination - domination is power over and implicated with violence, selfishness, hierarchy, and victimization; empowerment is power with (Nieto, 1999, p. 105)

sociocultural mediators: educations who take their responsibilities for working with students of diverse backgrounds seriously (Nieto, 1999, p. 115)

**********          **********          **********

Images for Reflection:

"...teachers need to ... acknowledge ... differences and ... act as a bridge between their students' differences and the culture of the dominant society" (Nieto, 1999, p. 115).

"...learning begins when students begin to see themselves as competent, capable, and worthy of learning" (Nieto, 1999, p. 123).

"...when teachers view their role as sociocultural mediators, they communicate to their students a deep respect for their particular cultural knowledge (Nieto, 1999, p. 115).