For Shor’s “Education in Politics” I am choosing to do a quote
analysis to start off my reflection. Shor says that: “A participatory classroom
offers chances to hear the largely silent voices of students from which
teachers learn how to integrate subject matter into their existing knowledge.
Students routinely hold back their voices as a means of resisting traditional
classrooms where authority is unilateral and where they lack an inspiring life
of the mind which speaks to their dreams and needs.” I believe this quote gets
Shor’s point across in a much briefer way. I can attest to this method being a preferred
way of learning for students because I myself am a student and have observed
that students participate far more in this type of lesson structure rather than
a mainstream lecture in which students scribble notes. I observed this first
hand in Dr. Bogad’s classroom and personally because I usually do not talk
often in classroom yet in FNED I can’t seem to keep my mouth shut because I
actually want express my opinion and get feedback from the teacher as well as
my classmates. As a history secondary education major I am constantly just
sitting in classrooms typing endless amounts of notes from a professors
lecture, so it’s a nice change of pace when we have classroom discussions that
stimulate my need to reason thoughts out and carefully choose how I want to
convey what I have to say. In essence I
am saying that as a student and future teacher, I prefer the idea of a
participatory classroom because it forces students to think and reason. It
makes them want to learn and understand and I believe that should be the
students attitude in every single classroom.
Below is a link to a rather lengthy but relevant video on participatory classrooms.
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