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Educators Who Challenge The Cultural Divide

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

“The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.”

•Born in Stratford, Taranaki.

•Warner became a student teacher in Willington in 1926.

•Attended Auckland Teachers' College in 1928.

•Wrote her treatise Teacher in 1963.

•Ashton-Warner died on April 28, 1984, in Tauranga.

1908-1984

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Contributions:

• Public work was centered on her teaching, and in particular, with experiments encouraging Maori children to read.

• Key vocabulary: a set of words with a special meaning relating to their emotional life.

• Teaching and approach to education are closely linked to her contribution to New Zealand literature.

Sylvia Ashton-WarnerWrote a treatise in 1963 called Teacher

includes:• techniques she used to teach Maori

children. • commitment to "releasing the native

imagery and using it for working material."

• belief that communication must produce a mutual response in order to affect a lasting change.

Other Writings: Spinster, Incense to Idols (1960), Bell Call (1969), Three (1970), Greenstone (1966), Stories from the River (1986), Myself (1966), I Passed this Way (1979)(NC)

Paulo Freire1921-1997

• Educational viewpoint was shaped through his experiences with poverty and culture.

• Appointed Director of the Department of Education in 1946.

• Appointed director of the Department of Cultural Extension of Recife University in 1961.

•Freire was appointed Secretary of Education for São Paulo in 1988.

• Taught 300 sugarcane workers to read and write in just 45 days.

•Most famous book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, published in 1968. •He is most well known for concepts such as:

- "Banking" Education- "Conscientization”- "Culture of Silence”

Paulo Freire

Other important concepts include: "Dialectic", "Empowerment", "Generative Themes/Words", "Humanization", "Liberatory Education", "Mystification", "Praxis", " Problematization", and "Transformation of the World.“

Paulo Freire

Came up with an educational theory that consisted of 8 parts:

Theory of Value Theory of KnowledgeTheory of Human Nature Theory of Learning

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Theory of TransmissionTheory of SocietyTheory of ConsensusTheory of Opportunity

What is Critical Education?

James A. Banks

”Unity without diversity leads to hegemony, and diversity without unity

leads to chaos.”

1941-Present

James A. Banks

• Appointed member of the Task Force to Reevaluate Social Science Textbooks in California (1971).

• The twenty-ninth annual faculty lecturer at the University of Washington in 2004-05.

• Received Social Justice in Education Award in 2004 from the AERA.

• Banks is currently the Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle.

James A. Banks

• He is a specialist in multicultural education and in social studies education.

• He defined four major approaches to multicultural curriculum:

-contributions approach-additive approach-transformation approach-social action

• Other books: Teaching Strategies for Ethnic Studies; Cultural Diversity and Education: Foundations, Curriculum and Teaching; Diversity and Citizenship Education: Global Perspectives; Race, Culture, and Education: The Selected Works of James A. Banks

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