Critical and Creative Thinking

Sixth Task "Where is the outrage?" Critical pedagogy in dark times.  Henry has envisioned and described a role for education as a political, moral, and ethical practice. I am going to state some ideas that was taken from the lecture. It is relevant to say that this was an interesting lecture for us as future teachers in order to make a reflection on what we are going to do. ·           In this lecture he ask educators to reconsider some fundamental question, including how they teach, under what conditions and for what purposes emphasizing the relationship between education and public life. ·          The lecture shares with us some aspects where teaching and learning strategies respond to contexts, broader contexts of democracy, social justice, agency, politics, power, culture, and community.   ·          The questions of educated hope and what that means i...

Fifth task.  Task A: Reflexion. Stereotypes. Personally, I consider that a stereotype is a characteristic or certain behavior that identified individuals from specific places. Stereotypes are given in positives and negatives ways. It means that are some goods and other not so good. People often accept those behaviors and characteristics when they consider these are true, but there are some others that they completely regret due to the fact that they feel offended by them. There are some narrow-minded people who understand the word stereotype as discrimination and prejudices; what it is important to know is that are related but not the same.   I loved the video talking about Latin American people stereotypes because I agreed with most of them. Actually, I think most of them are true maybe because those apply to me, such as: Latinos are fiery and hot-tempered, Latinos know how to dance, and are always up for a party and some others. I really have fun watc...