Pedagogy Of Humanization

Pedagogy of Humanization

"The purpose of the 'Pedagogy of humanization' is to build a critical mass of educators who know how to employ the principles of critical pedagogy in elementary classrooms. This includes attention to the various knowledge, skills, and dispositions required of critical pedagogues in their curricula, instruction, assessment, classroom environment, and relationships. It is the first book to bring together the practice (how) and theory (what and why) of inclusive and asset-based teaching. In this book, a group of teacher-educators across disciplines explore their personal and professional identities to reveal the potential for applying each tenet of culturally relevant pedagogy in their respective fields. Filled with anecdotes, exercises, user-friendly theories and examples, readers will learn how teachers can humanize themselves to have the capacity to be effective teachers of children who have been dehumanized and underserved by traditional teaching and schooling. Pre-service teachers will read this book so that they can connect the material they study in teacher education courses to the daily work of being an educator who aims to be justice-oriented. The book will prove to be a valuable resource as a teaching text in classrooms devoted to critical pedagogy, critical race theory, social justice, and other topics necessary to produce teachers who are prepared to maximize their effectiveness in educating today's students."--

Paulo Freire: Relevance to Indian Teacher Education

Teacher Preparation as Social Activism at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Teacher Preparation as Social Activism at Historically Black Colleges and Universities offers new insights into the historical educational perspectives of teacher preparation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Centering insightful research that chronicles the contributions of teacher preparation at HBCUs, it has a specific focus on activism in the form of fugitive pedagogy, social activism, organizing, and inclusive educational practices. It highlights and explores the ways in which such programs developed technical pedagogical skills for teaching and learning while leveraging society as an incubator to engage students in practices necessary to destabilize oppressive systems. The chapter authors examine historical social movements at the intersection of teacher preparation at HBCUs and race to impact societal change over time and explore teacher preparation at HBCUs as tools for activism, social justice, and liberatory practices. Reimagining educational history through the context of race relations and its contributing factors to the educational ecosystem, this significant contribution to the body of research on HBCUs will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in teacher education, history of education, race and ethnic studies, urban studies, and higher education.