Met with Cody and Nikita at Columbae – a living coop – different from a fraternity/sorority – a communal house. Great vegetarian food.
Worked out the mechanics of the activity we’re going to lead tomorrow:
Freire Pitch Night
We will split the class into 6 groups.
Each group is going to create a Freire School who’s guiding principle is the quote received.
20 minutes to create a 2 minutes long pitch to a panel of investors and parents (the rest of the class)
Deliverables
- Name
- Logo
- Moto / slogan
- Brief description of their strategy
Twist:
Halfway through the process we will announce that the investors demand that another theorist is included in their strategy.
Quotes / Theorist
Group 1
”… a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity.”
Brown
Group 2
“Education as a practice of freedom – as opposed to education as the practice of domination.”
Skinner
Group 3
“The teacher is no longer merely one-who-teaches, but one who is himself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach.“
Montessori
Group 4
“Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication.”
Hutchins
Group 5
“Liberating education consist in acts of cognition, not transferals of information”
Lave & Wenger
Group 6
“In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit, but as a limiting situation which the can transform”
Dewey