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How can we connect our current life to our current pedagogy?

Inquiry Guide: Sunny Chun and Sam Reinshagen

**Before Class**: -Think of how you would explain “pedagogy” to a classmate; we will discuss this in class.

- Several possible definitions of “pedagogy”: 1) Educational practice that draws on the constructs of critical theory to cultivate informed and empowered actors, particularly among marginalized or alienated peoples, and to transform discriminatory conditions resulting from the dominant culture's legitimization and distribution of knowledge. - Education.com

2) "Habits of thought, reading, writing, and speaking which go beneath surface meaning, first impressions, dominant myths, official pronouncements, traditional clichés, received wisdom, and mere opinions, to understand the deep meaning, root causes, social context, ideology, and personal consequences of any action, event, object, process, organization, experience, text, subject matter, policy, mass media, or discourse." (Empowering Education, 129) (according to critical pedagogue Ira Shor)

**During Class**: 1) Talk with your neighbors: -What is pedagogy? -Why is pedagogy important? -Does age affect pedagogy? -Does financial support affect pedagogy? -Does class size effect pedagogy? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-What else affects pedagogy, anything?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2) Video to look at different pedagogies

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Write 3 things you like and 3 things you dislike about the “teacher” for your group.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3) What builds/affects your pedagogy? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Who do you learn from? Professors, peers, younger students, anyone? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-How does the media/technology affect pedagogy? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Does pedagogy ever change or does it stay the same? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Think of your pedagogy now. Is there any part that you would never want to change? What is something you want to develop/learn more about?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4) Who is affected? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Does your pedagogy affect the pedagogy of others? If so, who? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Do students have pedagogies? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Why does this matter?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Extra: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHiby3m_RyM&feature=related__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are some things you find interesting or are concerned about in this video?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Resources: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://criticalpedagogy.wikispaces.com/Week+1+%26+2+What+is+Pedagogy%3F

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Journal Entry:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are thinking up to this point?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">bilingual education <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">teaching in a school with students from poor/working class families <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">teaching in a school with linguistically diverse students including other languages in your classroom, when you don't speak another one connecting current events to your pedagogy