An engaged pedagogy means that learning and teaching is engaging because it connects to their lives, supports student empowerment, encourages a society where multiculturalism is important, and learning is intrinsically motivating.
CBAE artist educators build curriculum that are culturally responsive to student learning needs and backgrounds. It encourages students to be transgressive, which basically means to encourage students to question and crush barriers, be self expressive and empowered, and the most important being using collaborative creative efforts. Simply, it motivates students to use personal and collective creative expression within a community ultimately encouraging empowering and transformative experiences.
I had the opportunity to spend some time at a workshop for emergent bilingual learners and their families. It was quite an eye opening experience to me and the need for resources are only going to grow because the number of people migrating to the midwest continues to grow. I also learned that the resources available aren't as available as I thought they were. I do recognize now how important it is for me as a future educator to be aware of the bilingual students in my classrooms and how I can include their families just like I would with students who have parents that speak english. I think I also need to make sure to build a community where cultural inclusivity is an important aspect of classroom environment. After this experience I am more aware of ways that I can do to encourage family and student normalcy at home, for example; working on homework together.
Getting students to engage in learning can be a difficult process, but reducing boredom by incorporating interest can help students become better individual learners. This can be achieved through class discussions, exploration of injustices, and questioning the world around them, as you mentioned. In my human relations course, we are learning about culturally-responsive teaching, which could be useful. Culturally responsive teaching incorporates culture references in all aspects of learning, which could be a great outlet for students to express themselves and how they feel. This allowed them to feel empowered and control over their art creations, instead of imposing yet more of an unfamiliar culture upon them.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you provided some examples of what this would like in action. Homework that is worked on together would not only benefit the student but also the family as a whole. That being said, many families might have communication problems too, to the point that only the mom or only the dad speak one language. In that case, it'd be hard for there to be any benefit in homework when they might speak the language. These are all issues I do worry about as a future teacher and I'm glad we're talking about them more in our classes.
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I like how you mentioned and highlighted the word transgressive. It is a word that I hadn't really heard much before, but from your post I really liked how you defined it. I love the idea of in the art classroom students can use personal and collective expression in a community to empower encouragement and transformational experiences. I think that this word goes perfectly in the art classroom. Through the process of artmaking what better way to do this to empower and encourage other people through various types of expression. This idea really makes me think about the project we will be doing with the middle schoolers in a little while.
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