Thursday, August 12, 2010

Chapter 2. Critical Roles for Teachers.

Teachers influence the daily lives of students in their classrooms. (p. 22)
Teachers have....a special role in the classroom: as language emissaries and mediators; as agents of introduction to the target culture; and as sources of professional knowledge for their colleagues. (p. 22)
As Hones (1999, p.27) put it, "Critical pedagogy is a way of teaching and learning that poses problems about the world, with the goal of helping all participants become more rully human and transform the reality around them. (p. 23)
Critical Pedagogy vs Banking Model s of instruction
Tollefson, Foucault, Bourdieu, Cummins, and Fairclough represent critical sociological points of view and offer insights about language policies in education. (p. 26)

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