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September 18, 2005
negotiating everything (authorship 3/25)
Shor, Ira. When Students Have Power: Negotiating Authority in a Critical Pedagogy. Chicago, IL: U Chicago P. 1996.
1 sentence summary: The implications of critical pedagogy go beyond talking about power relations; enacting negotiation of these relations not only has tangible material consequences on teachers' & students' roles, practices, & habits--in terms of curricula, syllabi and such easily taken-for-granted details as attendance policies, grading, & definitions of lateness--but draws to the fore the hidden intricacies of students' and teachers' positions and the power both always exert upon each other.
keywords: argue, authority, autonomy, curriculum, democratic, discomfort, negotiation, political, power, Siberia, status quo, student, student-talk, teacher, teacher-talk, Utopia
passages:
xi. list of theorists whose ideas influence/determine Shor's methodology
67. "the dialectics of circles and rows"
82-87. grading as the ultimate expression of teachers' unjustified & unjustifiable (in something as "squishy" as a writing class, anyway) authority.
top 5: Berlin, Dewey, Elbow, Foucault, Freire
Posted by ttobryan at September 18, 2005 10:25 AM