Session 1 Pre-Task
Please come to the first session prepared to discuss the following prompt questions:
● What are the central concerns of critical pedagogy?
Teachers asking why / students asking the same question: why am I learning this
-Examining content, methods and environments through which learning takes place as the first step to creating relevant and empowering education.
-Location / social class / gender / sexual orientation / race / ethnicity / spiritual beliefs may all play a part in this
● In what ways does critical pedagogy relate to UK Higher Education?
-Diverse and large student cohorts with varying needs and goals
-Ever changing student expectations as well as creative industries
-Maintaining diversity within the student cohort after the increase of student fees and Brexit
-In a world of automation and AI systems, what are students to learn / practice?
-To identify, address and alter colonial / gender and race and ability biased methods, curriculum, spaces
-education=agency=political::::: in a world where there is political apathy
● How does critical pedagogy relate to your own practice?
-questioning methods of learning (embodied, non-verbal, narrative)
-questioning who is teaching (supporting peer to peer)
-questioning where learning happens (before and after the lesson, outside, at home, at the party etc)
-diversifying sources and reference list
-diversifying languages in which learning may happen
-questioning how learning is being scaffolded // how can we do this better
● Discuss one thing you have learned or surprised you from the film.
-thinking about someone that is undergoing an education that was not designed for them due to location / set of references. What is relevant knowledge and to who?
● Discuss an aspect of critical pedagogy that you would like more information/clarification on.
-How can we make knowledge relevant?