Self, Community, & Ethical Action

Concept Mapping: Cultivating Critical Consciousness and Cultural Humility , Identifying Structural Injustice,Learning…

Dominant Vs. Subordinate Groups

For this reflection, I will be taking notes and incorporating some previous information discussed in past reflection papers. These will be some notes for myself to take into account when building my final paper.

1. Placing subjugated lives and voices…

Inspiring Action, Not Guilt

“I like being human because I perceive that the construction of my presence in the world, which is a construction involving others and is subject to genetic factors that I have inherited and to socio-cultural and historical factors, is nonetheless a presence whose construction…

Ideas for Ethics

This semester I’ve learned that people from all different backgrounds need to get the same opportunities, equally. Of course, I have always known this but through my volunteer work, I was able to see the biases first hand and the way these people handle their unjust biases. The people who attend…

CR #10: An Examination of Racism in Education + My Time At NGS

Through my community partner this semester, I have realized the power a single voice holds. NGS has opened my eyes of how racial basis can affect not only academic outcomes, but personal outcomes. It is absolutely crucial…

My ethical self

Placing subjugated lives and voices at the moral center is extremely important.These dynamics are present at my community partner Laurel Dell in many ways. First of all, the relationship between teachers and students is a kind of power imbalance. Of course. Teachers try to be on the same level as…

Starting to Synthesize the Sources

When starting to synthesize my research I found I need to separate ideas and attach sources to them. I thought the best principle to start with was putting subjugated voices at the moral center.

Expanding on Positionality in Education

Working in the ESL classroom at Canal Alliance has opened my eyes up to all the different ways that my own education has directly influenced my privilege. James Baldwin’s ideas of education acting as a paradox have helped bring me to the realizations about how…

Notes for Essay

1. Placing subjugated lives and voices at the moral center

• voices being heard
• people not being left out
• everyone counts
• everyone deserves a fair chance at life

pulling thoughts together

For this critical reflection I have decided to pull some material from my other reflections as well as coursework to answer these prompts and weave some thoughts together. This is most random notes to myself.

1. I’ve learned and benefited from many things from…

Prompt Critical Reflection 10!!!!! Doing Ethics from the Margins

How to be a Human Being

“That my destiny is not a given but something that needs to be constructed and for which I must assume responsibility” (Freire, 54). Like the philosopher Hannah Arendt in “Hannah Arendt and the Human Duty to Think,” Paulo Freire believes that challenging social ideologies and unjust…

Pedagogy of Freedom

Freire describes how social identity is conditioned by a larger structure. Such larger structures are part of social ideologies that guide our way of thinking. I was born with the ideology that education is something that one can take for granted as always had access to it. No one appreciates…

An Ethical Being

My social identity and that of others is conditioned by larger social structures. Some larger social structures which play a big…

Creating a Determined Existence Through Conscious Reflection

This week’s reading of Paulo Friere focused on understanding the creation of our consciousness from our past experiences. My social identity growing up was shaped largely by environmental factors that conditioned my mindset…

change

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The need to live in society is often overlooked — civilization is at it’s best when in…

Unfinished Humanity

My social identity and that of others conditioned by larger social structures are very close-minded to the idea of being unfinished. Many social ideologies cause injustices in our society like ageism, racism, and etc. This idea doesn’t help our society because these standards give the…

Unfinishedness

My social identity is quite strongly conditioned by the bigger structures around me. When I read this question I think of things in terms of being in the dominant group or the subordinate group. I have some things going for me in terms of being in a dominant group: I came from a middle class family…

One’s Identity

Being surrounded by larger social structures can really influnces one’s identity. Individuals might change their beliefs or behavior to adapt to a new society. This would be social influence and when there’s larger groups surrounding you, it’s almost easier to fall into their lifestyle because you…