"On the other hand, education is a social experience for tens or millions of students who come to class with their own dreams and agenda."
I do believe that education in schools do develop one’s social skills. Interacting with other people, especially your own age, is a way of learning. Also interacting with other develops communication skills to be fully functioning successful adults. This social experience is something a student learns during their first few year in school.
"Participation is the most important place to begin because student involvement is low in traditional classrooms and because action is essential to gain knowledge and develop intelligence."
Participation is very important in education. It’s important for both the teacher and the student. It shows the teacher that the student is engaged in learning and whether the answer right or wrong they are still making the effort to learn. For the student, participation keep them focus and active in a lesson. This is necessary to develop learning skills. It also is a way one gains knowledge from participating their own ideas and also listening to other’s ideas. Students learn a lot from their peer therefore participation is important for education in schools.
"Situated, multicultural pedagogy increases the chance that students will feel ownership in their education and reduces the conditions that produce their alienation."
Learning about multicultural is important aspect in education. In today’s diverse society it is beneficial to all to learn about one another’s culture. This will allow students expanded their horizons of another culture as well as feeling connected when learning about their own. Also with this it would allow students to be more accepting to one another, to realize that people come from all over with different beliefs but that does not make them less important. This is important that children learn this at an earlier age therefore they’re more accepting.
I did enjoy this reading. I found it very informative about how to approach thing in a class. It also taught me problems to avoid. I agree with shor’s ideas and opinions.
I agree with you when you say it's important to learn about multicultural aspects in education. We have a very diverse society today so it is important for students to know their surroundings.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you when you say that participation is important because education is a social experience. I think that communities should be formed in the classroom so children do not feel alone and feel open to talk and speak their opinions. This was new to me in college and I liked it but if it was introduced to me at a younger age it wouldnt have been so different. I felt my self often saying "wow you want to know my opinion thats new" because I was not used to it.
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