Essay #3 on Humanizing Pedagogy
Students will write 950 words (give or take 25 words) for this essay in response to the prompts below. Your essay should be double-spaced written from your point of view (first-person point of view). Wherever possible, draw from the article and film and other course materials/activities to support your answer. Your essay should demonstrate that you read and reflected on the reading and made connections to your own experiences and ideas.
For this Essay you will draw on 2 sources of information along with your own experiences
1) Source #1: Humanizing Pedagogy: Reinventing the Principles and Practice of Education as Journey Toward Liberation by María Del Carmen Salazar
2) Source #2: The Film Precious Knowledge (first 20 min) https://csus.zoom.us/rec/play/Ti5fw67wyBHuSGb9kHM6eXe51nAwp3G629igFYFd8jJWE-wQJe6Mu9gKnsL2-xpRV-aHz7EQ8NYCjBEq.22Pqeu6SNkF5mSzN?startTime=1616876841000&_x_zm_rtaid=1190EjAuTVG2NqET1lF3Tg.1617050060648.7d6bd0b211038a99300eaf3052dc72a1&_x_zm_rhtaid=378https://csus.zoom.us/rec/play/Ti5fw67wyBHuSGb9kHM6eXe51nAwp3G629igFYFd8jJWE-wQJe6Mu9gKnsL2-xpRV-aHz7EQ8NYCjBEq.22Pqeu6SNkF5mSzN?startTime=1616876841000&_x_zm_rtaid=1190EjAuTVG2NqET1lF3Tg.1617050060648.7d6bd0b211038a99300eaf3052dc72a1&_x_zm_rhtaid=378
In the first part of your essay explain
- How does the author and how do the students in the film typically experience school as “brown” people (beforethey get involved in Ethnic Studies) ?
- How do these personal experiences relate to the research on people of color in American schools?
- How do you relate in terms of YOUR OWN experiences as a k-12 student and /or those of your children.
In the second part of your essay describe
- One of the five tenets (or beliefs) of humanizing pedagogy what it means in your own words. Why is this important in your opinion to you and to students like you saw in Precious Knowledge? Explain and give examples from your own experiences and or the experiences of the students in the film Precious Knowledge. Use “I statements”.