I guess ..this article is about changing from the traditional methods that take away teachers’ power to a new approach that empowers teachers. Modernist positivism, based on scientific principles, has controlled how teaching has been done for most of the 20th century by providing teacher-proof material and focusing on teaching measurable objectives. There is one correct way to teach and one correct body of subject matter.(the article said,)
The key difference is the old paradigm involved the “discovery” of knowledge but the new paradigm (NP) involves the “invention” of knowledge.
"My Devils Advocate " Questions:
Who is calling for a change? Who are those pushing for a critical pedagogy? Isn’t the reality that there has always been and always will be a political agenda to teaching as there is to everything else in life? Haven’t the rich and powerful always ruled and manipulated the masses in one way or another?
New Paradigm Ts refuse to accept knowledge without questioning it first. Where did the knowledge come from? Who benefits from the knowledge? Freire called this “critical consciousness” which leads to social change. Ts must learn to operate in a cognitively sophisticated scholarly way before they can teach that way.
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