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Monday, June 27, 2011
bell hooks on cultural criticism and transformation
I can definitely see what she is referring to with the sense of entitlement-- when I directed an elementary title 1 after school program many of the students did not have or even understand that sense of imagination into their futures. I had a second grader who loved to build things and when one of his teachers told him he should be an architect when he grew up he dismissed it saying he would just grow up to be part of a gang and continued to argue that he had no possibilities for the future.
At what ages can students turn this pattern of thinking around? Here Hooks talks about thinking critically-- but how do you turn around the thinking patterns of a 7 year old? When is it "too late?" Is an entitled view of one's future really achievable in secondary aged students if they have believed the opposite since elementary school? What do you guys think?
I can definitely see what she is referring to with the sense of entitlement-- when I directed an elementary title 1 after school program many of the students did not have or even understand that sense of imagination into their futures. I had a second grader who loved to build things and when one of his teachers told him he should be an architect when he grew up he dismissed it saying he would just grow up to be part of a gang and continued to argue that he had no possibilities for the future.
ReplyDeleteAt what ages can students turn this pattern of thinking around? Here Hooks talks about thinking critically-- but how do you turn around the thinking patterns of a 7 year old? When is it "too late?" Is an entitled view of one's future really achievable in secondary aged students if they have believed the opposite since elementary school? What do you guys think?