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“[E]ducation is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire.” Gert Biesta paraphrasing W.B. Yeats. Freire’s call for teachers to engage their students in a process of conscientização— of awakening their ‘critical consciousness’ so that they might confront and react to the socio-political realities of themselves and others, the injustices in which they…
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Being warm/strict as a teacher is part of a methodology which, if executed correctly, makes clear to students the expected classroom culture, behaviours and etiquette, and holds them to those expectations unwaveringly. This isn’t ‘strictness’ in the sense that one must be or pose as a dominator. No. Severus Snape was way out of line.…
Megapedagogy 