"Education either functions as an instrument used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically andcreatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world." - Paolo Freire
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
“[R]eading the world always precedes reading the word, and reading the word implies continually reading the world.” - Paolo Freire
This page is still under construction. However, the ideas in these seminal videos are ones that resonate deeply with my ideas about teaching and learning in the literacy classroom. Thank you for viewing.
"Beneath this world of raging manifestos and symbolic victories resides a humbler reality one where change occurs, if it occurs at all, as a result of quiet, patient, all but anonymous efforts...where teachers, working in imperfect systems, help their students learn about language and its limits, the social world and its possibilities. In this fallen world, there are no stories of decisive victories; there is only movement toward and away from an ever-receding goal and the ceaseless--some might say mindless--work of building on the ruins of the past."
-from Writing at the End of the World by Richard Miller
"Education either functions as an instrument used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically andcreatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world." - Paolo Freire
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
“[R]eading the world always precedes reading the word, and reading the word implies continually reading the world.” - Paolo Freire
This page is still under construction. However, the ideas in these seminal videos are ones that resonate deeply with my ideas about teaching and learning in the literacy classroom. Thank you for viewing.
"The Dangers of the Single Story"
Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
"Beneath this world of raging manifestos and symbolic victories resides a humbler reality one where change occurs, if it occurs at all, as a result of quiet, patient, all but anonymous efforts...where teachers, working in imperfect systems, help their students learn about language and its limits, the social world and its possibilities. In this fallen world, there are no stories of decisive victories; there is only movement toward and away from an ever-receding goal and the ceaseless--some might say mindless--work of building on the ruins of the past."
-from Writing at the End of the World by Richard Miller