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Jennifer Bowens Nick Curran Nina Kraft Katie Olson Eva Tucker

Educators Who Challenge The Cultural Divide. Jennifer Bowens Nick Curran Nina Kraft Katie Olson Eva Tucker. Sylvia Ashton-Warner. 1908-1984. Born in Stratford, Taranaki . Warner became a student teacher in Willington in 1926. Attended Auckland Teachers' College in 1928.

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Jennifer Bowens Nick Curran Nina Kraft Katie Olson Eva Tucker

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  1. Educators Who Challenge The Cultural Divide Jennifer Bowens Nick Curran Nina Kraft Katie Olson Eva Tucker

  2. Sylvia Ashton-Warner 1908-1984 • 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. “The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.”

  3. 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.

  4. Sylvia Ashton-Warner Wrote a treatise in 1963 called Teacherincludes: • 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)

  5. Paulo Freire 1921-1997 • 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.

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

  7. Paulo Freire Came up with an educational theory that consisted of 8 parts: Theory of Value Theory of Knowledge Theory of Human Nature Theory of Learning Theory of Transmission Theory of Society Theory of Consensus Theory of Opportunity What is Critical Education? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTGiAbtOmNU&feature=related

  8. James A. Banks 1941-Present ”Unity without diversity leads to hegemony, and diversity without unity leads to chaos.”

  9. 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.

  10. 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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