Education is Politics
Ira Shor
Response:
I was pretty bored with reading this piece. I thought his ideas were interesting and his points about the classroom made sense but I thought he rambled on way to much, that I sort of just stopped reading and went on to the next point and I would read a few lines and continue the process. I agree with many of his points especially with the teacher centered classroom versus the student classroom. I think it varied depending on the teacher that I had in high school it would vary with how much they truly honestly cared about the students versus just teaching the basic information. While reading this I found a lot of similarities with the other pieces that we had read for the class especially with Finnand his point of view with the different ways that teachers teach and that it depends on also your social class and what type of education that a student receives.
I have to agree, this piece was a very long and difficult one to read. In many ways, it was a re-hashing of the points that we have already touched upon in class.
ReplyDeleteIt is long and wordy, yes. But I'm glad that you heard the echo of the other texts we have read. That was not a accident :)
ReplyDeleteI am so in agreement, this is probably the only text this semester that I had to really work to get through, but the message is a simple one that essentially wrapped up the ultimate purpose of our class.
ReplyDeleteyea it was pretty long but it definately was a recap of everything throughout the semester
ReplyDeleteEven though it did take a while to read, it was great that it went over what we did this semester. This article kind of summed it up.
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