1. Week 2: Critical Pedagogy & Our Educational Narrative Grab a snack, chat with others, and begin to think about: Common themes around the education of Mexican American kids/ teens/ college kids Your educational journey What you read about critical pedagogy Your ideas and critics of critical pedagogy Critical pedagogy & the role of teachers New perspectives

2. Mexican American Kids/Teens/ College students What are the common discussions around the education of Mexican American kids, teens, and college students?

3. Our Educational Narratives What is your educational story? Think about the K-16/20 educational pipeline: 1. Transformative/ empowering moments 2. Challenging times or obstacles 3. Debrief with your group and look for common themes 4. Debrief with class

4. Critical Pedagogy How can we use critical pedagogy to examine the education of Chicanas/os? Empowerment of the counter narrative Class reproduction & the public schools Subjects of history but possibility for human agency Incorporates notion of hegemony Resistance and counter-hegemony Praxis Dialogue and Problem-posing pedagogy

5. Major Influences 1. John Dewey: 1897-1940: Progressive education 2. W.E.B. DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk 3. Carter G. Woodson: The Miseducation of the Negro 4. Myles & Zilphia Horton: 1932-1961: Highlander Folk School 5. Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Video)Video 6. bell hooks: Teaching to Transgress 7. Michelle Fine: Framing Dropouts 8. Latina/o Critical Theory Rodolfo Acuña Ruth Behar Richard Delgado Gerald Lopez

6. ¿Qué más? You’ve read a few pages from Pedagogy of the Oppressed: What other concepts would you add to our conversation about critical pedagogy?

7. Why is CP important within educational research of Chicanas/os? FunctionalismConflict TheoryInterpretiveCritical Theory DIAGNOSEPREDICTUNDERSTANDEMANICPATE What are the characteristics of the dropout population? What are the social class origins of dropouts and at-risk students? How do the patterns of interaction between teachers and students lead students to define themselves as failures? What processes operate within the school to push students out? EssentialismPerennialismProgressivismSocial Reconstruction

8. In class reading: The Education & Language of Detroit Mexicans Take a few minutes to read this short article published in the Journal of Educational Sociology in May 1944. Underline or highlight key words/ phrases that jumped out to you Why did you select these words or phrases?

9. Critical Pedagogy & Teacher Education Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals What does CP push for teachers to do in the classroom? Disempowerment of teachers Reflective practitioners Proletarianization of teacher work Transformative intellectuals Technocratic approach Management pedagogies Schools are not neutral sites Making the pedagogical more political Making the political more pedagogical

10. Ideas & Critics What do you think? Every framework has problematic spaces. Discuss the readings with your group and write one discussion question that addresses any ideas/critics you have of critical pedagogy.

11. Final Reflection Did our conversation about critical pedagogy make you consider something about your own educational journey in a different way? Did our conversation about critical pedagogy make you consider something about the education of Chicanas/os in a different way?