What does it mean to me to be a critical educator?

[hurricane0801]

Oh...amazing video! I'd like to sugest you to sub it, that way more ppl would understand what u're saying... and sugest to ...where is the rest of the video?

Great job, =D

[maximusmushu]

Brilliant! Thank you for posting this. I'm doing the MSW program with UNE and I'm so glad we were able to watch your video.

[sunuponwater]

Very good understanding of the daily violence of imperialism and the reactions you get when simply questioning power.

[MsLaBajo]

Fantastic video!

[sixthbrokenstring]

Holy shit, someone seriously broke critical pedagogy down in words i can understand. Thank you!

[kerouax69]

ManchuDan,

I take no sides, but I'd offer this: perhaps your tone forecloses all conversation. I think you'll get more done by taking stock of how you come across. Comments like "Can't deal with the truth?" are so antagonistic that there's no way to have a conversation with you unless it's on your terms, as opposed to a mutual space where both parties can learn something (you wrote this on FullBellies's homepage). It's frustrating, I know, when people don't listen to us. But why don't they?

[ManchuDan22]

@kerouax69, Yes, perhaps stridency is not the best precursor to reasonable debate.

However, it is interesting that in all my postings (and I do have an aggressive manner, I know) I have only been censored by educators. Now FullBellies says he did not, if so then I apologize for my rant on his home page.

But, it is so sad to me that, from radical Muslims to Ron Paul cultists, the only people whom I have seen stifle debate are "educators".

What does that say about our schools?

[taniamcramalho]

You did a beautiful summary of progressive critical pedagogy education. Where is the end, though? Can you include the rest?

[FullBelliesOpenMinds]

Youtube has time and time again only alloud this podcast to be uploaded to this point in the piece. I went back into garadgeband and made it 15 seconds longer just to see if that would work and it didnt. i was told in order to post the whole thing i'd need to make a new user Id.

the end is "One of which is the need to continue to Question."

thanks for your int

[FullBelliesOpenMinds]

thanks for your interest :)

[ManchuDan22]

WOW, Amazing!!!

In 3:30 min.s you have encapsulated every bit of progressive education bull shit, quite a bit of the new age pseudo-profundity, and the vague, neo-marxist anti-capitalist whining about how it's "all not fair".

With your level of liberal indoctrination, you MUST be a teacher!

(how condescending of you) "we must even listen to Republicans" Do you have any idea which party has ruined US Public Education??

[seanotube85]

If you're against equality, flexibility and problem solving then I'm sorry you exist.

[FullBelliesOpenMinds]

i guess i didn't read your post 7 months ago. kerouax69's recent response led me here. if you care to have a discourse on the issues you see within my class project, i'd love to learn from you. but most of your post is self gratifying insults to my opinions and ideas. I think we need to listen to all people in order to balance the futures of children who's parents ascribe to political parties. My belief is that both groups of ruling class elite are creating robots through socialization FUCK

[ManchuDan22]

@FullBelliesOpenMinds, thank you, I would like to know how you arrived at the opinions in your video

Other than my initial sarcasm, all my comments are a direct response to your video (with which I obviously disagree in the extreme)

I have now listened to it at least 10 times, and I'm still having a very hard time getting past all the edu-babble (schools marginalizing you) and the stale Marxist verbiage (key to liberation & perpetuated your lower class status)

It all sounds hollow

[FullBelliesOpenMinds]

I arrived at the opinions in my video through a short lifetime of studying education, policy, social justice and structural inequality. My parents are both public school teachers, we discussed school issues at the dinner table my whole life. Furthermore, I have been working with Americans who are food insecure for 10 years, listening to their problems, and seeing the connections between education and marginalization. I spent the last 5 years studying education and food at a public university

[ManchuDan22]

@FullBelliesOpenMinds

1. I'm not sure what you mean by "food insecurity"; lack of food? Lack of money? Poor food quality?

2. What kind of "structural inequality"? Financial? Racial? Educational? Are you saying that there is an actual formal plan to create inequity?

3. "connections between education and marginalization"?? How does education marginalize students? Bad ED vs. Good ED?

In my experience ED is the best way to PREVENT marginalization.

I enjoy debate, but I need context

[dedfred1209]

@ManchuDan22

Read the first chapter of Paulo Freire's book "Pedagogy of the Oppressed." He is a Brazilian Educationalist, and I think you will learn a lot from it.