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While reading the article called Exploring Arts- Based inquiry for social justice in graduate education i was instantly hit with some words i was questionable on like Ethnodrama which is the performance 'text' and when it is performed the descriptive term shifts to ethnotheatre. i started with the quote “ I think that an art-based approach forces me to involve my emotions, and impact myself in my research”. while reading that article i started to think about the different ways of learning using arts and even changing the classroom setting or factors can change the way the child learns. My next quote was “ having said that dominate understandings of what is beautiful or power artistically are laced with histories of racism, sexism, colonialism, homophobia, xenophobia, and classism”. This quote is where i sadly started become very confused with the article even though i like that thoughts of using arts in the classroom. one of the last quotes i read almost gave me empowerment to open up and look at learning a different way and so i started seeking out different learning methods for my class the quote said “ her approach is self reflexive embodied, informed by a vision and commitment to social justice, while at the same time it gives me important information about her experience with the class”

Engaging with the Class

Today in class we read a article and studies on African American males in special education and there affects in the classroom. I started to think about how when it comes to males in the classroom they tend to be pushed to the back of the class and ignored. I stated to think about my little brother and how he isn't doing the best in the classroom setting and my mother compares us but it seemed like growing up she was harder on me when it came to education. I felt almost a push to this discussion due to my brother because the black education that he is getting. The mostly black school but when he acts out in the classroom teachers don't want to deal with him and his grade tend to sink leaving him in the dark and in that instant he isn't getting the same compared education as the other student. This made me up set the fact that even though i am being hard on my brother to get the grades i know he can get he still probably wont get the same amount of education as the other students. Even though it is his faulting no teacher should never stop trying to teach the student or give up on that student.

Erotica in the Classroom

When reading the article Eros, Eroticism and the pedagogical process i was a little thrown of by the quote “erotic in our classroom”. While looking up the definition like i thought when you think of erotic you think sexual. I learned it can also be categorized as a feeling its almost like a dislike feeling of knowing that you don't like a student but not knowing why. that can only be factored in when it comes to the classroom. Another quote i grabbed out of the text is “to call attention to the body is to betray the legacy of repression and denial that has been handed down to us by our professorial elders who have been usually white and male” that quote kind of stuck with me i didn't really know how to really take it i had read it multiple times to get better knowledge on it but i was still questioning it.

Tony Wagner introduces Deeper Learning by providing an introduction to each network and the Deeper Learning competencies.

The video applys to the reading by Grauerholz. She talks of different teaching technique to get the students on different learning pages. In the article “Teaching Holistically to Achieve Deep Learning” they say that emotions is the key to forming a deeper learning situation in the classroom. Sometimes when their is a resistance to the learning students tend to have to work harder to get the concepts of the lessons. strategies that are discussed is that the classroom should come together to make there own structure for the classroom.

Feminist Pedagogy

Woman are a key note in the learning of student as teacher they must form a bond with their student in order to help them achieve there goals as children and even young adult. Older teachers have formed a Resistance to forming a better bond with students and forming a learning community within the classroom. I feel that changing the way students learn in the classroom can help to achieve bigger goals for the class. Maybe teacher may go the extra mile to make sure everyone in the class is getting the assignment. Teachers may even chance the layout of the classroom and it may help student to break out of there shell to not be in the same dominant environment at all times.like in the article by Ms.Hook she says “In order to make revolutionary feminist pedagogy we must relinquish our ties to traditional ways of teaching that that reinforce domination”. that just means changing our outlook on the way we learn and teach, teachers shouldn't know all mighty due t the fact that people learn new things everyday so no one knows everything.

Does Emotions in the Classroom Help or Hurt?

Throughout all generations teachers have been told to detach there feeling form the classroom and there students because emotions are not needed to teach. Through out years i couldn't understand why teachers were so distance from the students back when i was in K-12 schools there was only one teacher that ever really showed me emotion and gave me the help I needed. As we progress though the generations I’ve noticed that emotions in the classroom has become a recurrence. Older generations of teachers seem to distance themselves form the students and most time they don't seem to get the same out come of grades as a teacher who generally shows emotions. When teachers give off emotions they tend to show students that they are cared for. While reading Feeling Power: Emotions and education by Megan Boler she makes me think if the emotional connection effects boys growing up in to men. Then I though about my brother growing up he was and how if he keeps destining his emotions from his learning than it would be harder for him to learn its almost like when it come to his emotion sit will stunt his learning curve.

Has the classroom conditions made the students lazy?

Has the classroom conditions made the generation of students lazy? While reading the article Being ‘Lazy’ and slowing down: toward decolonizing time, our body, and pedagogy by Riyad Shahjahan It started to make me think that grade school has mad children lazy when it comes to learning. Students have been trained to sit in the desk facing the teacher and hang on the teachers every word. Through high school student are told that college is going to harder and its going to be worst than high school but that is only what they perceive to be true generations of pedagogy have changed. Now in the classroom setting, things have changed with learning in the classroom now most times students don't just sit and listen to the teacher in a lecturing style. now in the college classroom they have more conversations then lectures. Professors love having group conversations to make sure the students understand the contents of the lesson for that day. Honestly i think that grade school to high school has brain washed students to make there comfort zone staying quite with there eyes on the teacher at all times and that the only way to learn but its not.

What is a Safe? vs What is a Brave space?

A safe space is when your supposed to feel like your in an environment that you don’t feel judged and your free of harassment, criticism and even discrimination. honestly there is no such thing as a safe space everywhere you go there is always someone to judge you. Facts say when you walk into a room, a person has already made up 30 perceptions about you after 7 seconds. Sorry to say we live in a judgmental world where no one is perfect but, everyone picks at each other. When in come to the world that we live in we all have to have tough skin and know that even though were gonna be judged we are all perfect in our own way almost like we are perfectly imperfect. From Safe Space to Brave Space by Brian Arao and Kristi states you must give rules on how to make it a brave space because safe spaces don’t really exist when it comes to the environment we live in. When using safe space your have guidelines so that the people in the class don’t feel hurt or misconstrued by what is said or done in the class. I honesty believe that a brave space works in a teaching environment because in a learning pedagogy environment you have to be able to be open and share your option no matter what the issue is.

Claiming an Education By Adrienne Rich

While reading this article put in front of me in my woman study class, I stated to think about my educational goals an how my personal goal were getting in the way of my educational goals. After reading the article the first time i started writing goals and under my big goal i made little sub goal so knew how to accomplish them.Then in the article on the first page she stated the difference between claiming and receiving. When it came to claiming i thought about maybe grabbing something that you felt that spiritually belonged to you that you worked so hard for but in the article on the first page they defined it as to take as the rightful owner.when it came to receiving i thought of maybe not challenging yourself and being handed everything, the article defines it as coming into possession of. While doing group work on this article one of my group members asked the question “With the role that woman take in education even while playing it safe why is that woman need to reduce themselves to find love?”. It made me think as a student of a all woman's college we tend to play it safe because in my opinion some woman reduce there knowledge for there significant other.

Class Commitment and Common Rules

-Class commitments to keep the class room a safe place is to always be respectful and keep a open mind no matter what the other person is says. The class room where you share discussion should always be a safe space in order to make sure that is accomplished you must always support each other no matter what.

-Some common rules that should be set in the class room is don't talk when others are talking, Take responsibility for your own education, respect the instructor, and turn in the work on time.

Identity

Before getting into my woman's studies class we were given 5 minutes to first meditate and center ourselves before getting class started. after mediation we took the time to go through the passages that we were given over the first week of classes. While reading all the passages i couldn't help but feel like it was centered toward learned behavior. growing up we were trained to act a certain way and and it was like we were taught how we should act in society. while reading i started to get a better understanding of how society raised me not to think outside the box and to sit at a desk facing the teacher and don't talk or laugh because we are not taught to be unique. while reading i started to question my own identity and who i was raised to be instead of who i could have been. after reading some other online passages i learned that identity has two folds or layers one is how you perceive yourself, two is how others perceive you

First day of class

Today was the first day of feminine pedagogies and education class. When entering the class i was kinda skeptical because i didn't know how it was going to go but after being in the class and learning what pedagogies actually meant i started to feel more comfortable. Pedagogies means the function or work of a teacher; teaching. After hearing that definition i though i was in the wrong class begin a social work major. After staying for the whole class i knew that it would be a good experience an help with my learning process so that i can become the best social working that i can be and even one day change another persons learning process.

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