Dignifying the educational process through conscientização

Teaching is a very complex endeavor. Embedded within this complex environment are issues of power, culture, ethnicity, and race. When teachers and students come together, in the classroom, some of these issues become visible and others remain invisible. Attempting to make influences on teaching and...

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Published in:Cultural studies of science education 2009-09, Vol.4 (3), p.733-738
Main Author: Gallard Martinez, Alejandro J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Classroom Environment
Classroom Research
Classrooms
Cultural Context
Education
Educational Needs
Educational Philosophy
Elementary Secondary Education
Ethnicity
Forum
Hispanic American Students
Instruction
Learning Processes
Literacy
Mobility
Mothers
Race
Reflection
Science Education
Science Instruction
Social interaction
Sociology of Education
Students
Studies
Teachers
Teaching
Teaching Methods
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Summary:Teaching is a very complex endeavor. Embedded within this complex environment are issues of power, culture, ethnicity, and race. When teachers and students come together, in the classroom, some of these issues become visible and others remain invisible. Attempting to make influences on teaching and learning visible is one of the steps toward developing a practice framed by conscientização. Ms. Cook, the teacher of this story, is empowering herself and her students; through critical reflection that serves to deneutralize educational acts by recognizing they are embedded in issues of culture, ethnicity, politics, power, and, race. Classroom based research must be more inclusive and indeed cognizant of the mediating macrostructures that teachers deal with everyday. For example, Goldberg and Muir Welsh describe some of the students as being Latinos. In doing so, they adopts a third person as opposed to a first person view of these students. A first person view can acknowledge a dialectical relationship between race and ethnicity.
ISSN:1871-1502
1871-1510
DOI:10.1007/s11422-009-9191-8