Category: module one

  • Context for video

    To respond to the content of this course, I have chosen a video. I am so delighted that there was an opportunity to respond to the content of this course in an artistic way. I have been so impressed with the style of teaching and learning in this course. I think it is a better…

  • interpellation

    Have a listen to Suze Wilson talking about the interpellation of women and the role of the state and conformity to an ideal – to feel comfortable. She also touches on the backlash towards the “other.”

  • Sidetracked

    Yet also not sidetracked This book (Frankel 2018) It fits in with the first part of the course. It is challenging us to look at the way we see children. Universal child vs Individual child – All children are the same. Whether we see children as individual people, rather than a general child.. The Future…

  • what’s your story morning glory..

    Such fun! Where to start? Both my parents were in education, and both did further education when I was a child. We were a eat dinner together, listen to National radio kind of family. I think I can say that my Dad is a nerd and an alternative thinker, totally rational. My Mum was “smart”…

  • Conscientization

    What barriers? Who defines success, historical trauma, current trauma, content, relevance, teachers, overt and covert racism, classism,  support academic, cultural and physical, denial by adults, adult interference. Why do you think they exist? Over heard in a staffroom, with parents present: Principal saying “if you want to learn Maori, you should do it in your…

  • economics

    Welfare state economy: where the state produces goods and services for all. Free market economy: (a myth) where you can freely buy and sell goods and services. Neo-liberalism: form of neoclassical economics where public goods are privatised and monetized, where public goods and services are minimised. The process we more from a welfare state to…

  • awakening

    I grew up in a household that focused on the environment (deep ecology), social issues, and collectivism – hence my mother standing for the Values party. I remember some man calling my lovely mum a scab like he hated her when we were at a Springbok tour protest – we lived, at the time, in…

  • Freire

    First thought about the quote was about the archaic language and how the quote can only be understood by people versed in academic language (maybe Brazilians have better vocab?) which is exclusive therefor oppressive. Totally agree. You have to be part of the system to destroy the system that prevents you being yourself in the…

  • narrative

    2. I have been paying more attention, in listening out for narrative stories and when I hear them in my general life. So far: I have noticied a tendancy to tell such narrative stories when trying to make a connection with a stranger. Or eg, to reconnect with a friend: we went over similar stories…