[lit-ideas] Re: Locating Friere's foot

  • From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:55:16 -0400

Bill Dolphin: I am not a scholar of Friere's work...

Ditto of course. My entry into the topic is practical, albeit second-hand. A friend of mine teaches third grade in the NYC public school system. From her, I glean tidbits about "dialogic pedagogy," its benefits and disadvantages. You could talk theory and I could describe praxis. From what I gather, this teaching approach works well on ESL/ELL/whatever-it's-called-now students, but like so much of "progressive education," it often benefits slow students at the expense of the more quick-witted ones.

But hey, if you're gonna lump all kinds of students -- except the most brilliant few -- into a classroom, then of course you'll have remediated slow learners and a whole caboodle of angry, bored, and alienated smarter students. That may be the intention after all, to facilitate the production of extremely kind and polite, extremely dumb students. Eloi for the impending banana republic.

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