{"id":202,"date":"2014-07-11T21:11:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T21:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackhistorynorton.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/11\/pedagogy-of-the-oppressed\/"},"modified":"2014-07-11T21:11:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T21:11:42","slug":"pedagogy-of-the-oppressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/pedagogy-of-the-oppressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedagogy of the Oppressed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paulo Freire writes in his class\u00a0<em>Pedagogy of the Oppressed<\/em>: \"How can the oppressed. . . participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?\" He believed that the \"pedagogy must be forged\u00a0<em>with,\u00a0<\/em>not\u00a0<em>for<\/em>, the oppressed.\"\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you substitute \"poor\" for \"oppressed,\" then you get a bit of what I'm trying to do with my anti-poverty pedagogy course design principles. My work is far less theoretically or potentially empowering than Freire's, yet the question of how to craft a pedagogy with students seems central to both his an my projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I've explored holding focus groups, and experience at my college is that few students attend. I could cold call folks and offer money to answer a survey of questions, but a) I don't have money for that kind of thing, and b) I hate people cold-calling me, why would I do that to others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What I really want is for students to offer suggestions for everyday things I (and all professors) could do to make poor students succeed better.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My solution, thus far, is to find a way to collect electronic input, perhaps in the comment sections of this blog, and to set up a \"Lucy-offering-advice-style cardboard kiosk\" at Normandale during peak hours and ask for suggestions face-to-face. Whatever I do, I need to do it fast as the summer is flying and I need to build the course design partly on suggestions I don't have.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paulo Freire writes in his class\u00a0Pedagogy of the Oppressed: &#8220;How can the oppressed. . . participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?&#8221; He believed that the &#8220;pedagogy must be forged\u00a0with,\u00a0not\u00a0for, the oppressed.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacknorton.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}