Dangerous Minds
In chapter 4, Freire begins to discuss freedom. Although he believes that it should have some limits, he wants us, as teachers, to give our students all the freedom they need. Watching the movie Dangerous Minds made me question where one draws the line and if we even have that choice over our students. In this movie we see how these students in her Academy class are "bright, challenging" students who actually turn out to be rowdy and disrespectful inner-city kids. These students have all the freedom in the world to do and say whatever they want causing a BIG interruption in the lesson and teaching process.
In reading Adams- “The School as an Ecosystem”, he brings up the question of who should control our schools and how? In the U.S we have a multilevel government bureaucratic structure that does the decision-making in education. In addition we also have groups such as teacher unions that also put pressure at the federal, state and local level of these......
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