Curriculum is the questioning of authority and the searching for complexviews of human situations

pedagogy is always political because it is connected to the acquisition of agency

a pedagogy of repression

I often struggle to achieve the level of autonomy that seems necessary for this work because authority over, and ownership of, education has been distributed to a wide variety of stakeholders

We are unapologetic tinkerers who neither invent the wheel, nor are satisfied with the wheels already at our disposal.

Is it possible to imagine spaces, experiences, and opportunities for our students to wed the praxis of coding with the philosophies of the humanities?

trigger warnings are a fundamental part of feminist teaching because they help create a community of learners who acknowledge difference.

By suggesting a script for my questions, my phone attempts to program me.

rather than helping us understand the task, this kind of simplification helps us ignore the task and instead understand the device.

A critical pedagogue risks enacting the same paternalism they are criticising.

my students are the most central members of the community in which I learn critical pedagogy.

Nobody is going to tell me how to be a better teacher; I have to discover it for myself. But that doesn’t mean that I’m on my own.

I had presumed that my students would find inquiry-based pedagogy empowering — The textbook is not the authority, you are! — but paradoxically, this “empowerment” was something I tried to push them into by force.

I tried to do too much too quickly, and the whole thing fell apart.

inquiry learning is naturally a more fluid process than what students are accustomed to

If learning happens in communities, why do we require students to keep their eyes on their own paper?

When I first started reading about critical pedagogy I found the scholarship interesting but too abstract. I understood that it was intentionally non-prescriptive, but it also seemed impractical to me.

If empowerment is to happen with DoOO, it must happen for all.

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