Assignment 1c

Christina
1. Christina believes that she has a very positive view of California. She believe that this differs from the view of non-Californians.
2. a. The first thing that I learned abut Paulo Freire from Christina's post is that his five educational focuses were: dialogue, praxis, conscientization, experience, and metaphors. He also liked not working with a curriculum. He felt that people learned better in different settings.
b. The second thing that I learned was that he took the many things he learned from his many travels and used those new found ideas in his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed. I also learned that he wrote another book, but Pedagogy of the Oppressed was the most famous.
3. This informaion relates to our study of humanities because we are studying the human nature and culture. Education, whether big or small, is still an important part of every culture.


Linda
1. Linda lives 8.4 miles from the SRJC campus and has never created a blog before.
2. a. The first thing that I learned from Linda's post was that one of the teaching methods Freire highly encouraged was the dialogue between teacher and student. Through this, both the teacher and the student would be learning.
b. The second thing that I learned was that another idea of his was "Critical Conscientiousness". This is explained as realizing the correlation between ones problems and experiences and the "social contexts in which they're imbedded".
3. This information relates to our study of humanities because as we are learning, we are in dialogue with each other, so we are actually using one of Freire's ideas in our class time and assignments.