the pedagogy of oppression. what we re doing is we re taking 15 and 16-year-old students and we re telling them you may not realize you re oppressed. we actually had a student come up to the legislature and testify to this effect when she was a freshman she started this class and after the end of the class she realized oh, i am in fact oppressed when before she didn t feel that way. well, why is that? that s indoctrination. we have a text called occupied america, which talks about how the chicano population, hispanic population needs to rise up and smash the bringo. it s very inflammatory language, and it s inappropriate in an educational context. i m stunned. i thought i knew a lot about american politics. i didn t know this kind of stuff was being taught. what do you make of it, professor? well, first of all, that s not what s happening. it is possible that there are a few rogue teachers somewhere who are going above and beyond what the curriculum suggests. but pedagogy of th
uses curriculum and books, textbooks that there s, to me, very disturbing information. for example, one of the books they use is called occupied america which teaches the students that this country was once mexico and if they rise up and take it back to be their country, once again, and most of these students were born in this country and they should be taut this this country is a country that advances them to be productive citizens of this country and not to rise up and be disloyal to this country. and this is what i think this course is teaching them, that they are victims and that they are oppressed. this is what is very disturbing to me, that as public school administrator that i was for ten years and in the public school system, why are we having this type of curriculum being taught to our students. let s talk to dr. augustine
class she realized oh, i am in fact oppressed when before she didn t feel that way. well, why is that? that s indoctrination. we have a text called occupied america, which talks about how the chicano population, hispanic population needs to rise up and smash the bringo. it s very inflammatory language, and it s inappropriate in an educational context. i m stunned. i thought i knew a lot about american politics. i didn t know this kind of stuff was being taught. what do you make of it, professor? well, first of all, that s not what s happening. it is possible that there are a few rogue teachers somewhere who are going above and beyond what the curriculum suggests. but pedagogy of the oppressed as was just referenced is not a book about overthrowing a government. it s not about convincing students that they re o prezed. it s a book about actually multiculturism. it s a book about progressive education. in fact the book is used in education schools all around the country to encourag
we ve always had ethnic studies. it s just the ethnicities that we focused on were european. they were irish. they were polish. they were russian. and now we re saying there are other people who also have ethnicities who count as well. and it s also factually untrue to say that the purpose of ethnic studies is to put black people on one track and chicanos on another track. white people will take african studies. black people will take asian studies. the point is to expose everyone to the range of cultures that makes america good. explain the pedagogy of the oppressed and how you believe it clearly makes an ideological statement. well, that is just one of the texts. the other text is called occupied america in which it talks about smashing the gringo. and there are many other examples we ve found not only through our own investigation, we have read the curriculum, we have spoken to teachers down there. the very idea that in 2010 we would go back decades and decades to a very dark
students and telling them, you may not realize you re oppre oppressed. we have a student who said at the ethd of the class, she realized i am in fact oppressed. why is that? that s indoctrination. we have a text called occupied america which talks about how we, the chigenno population, hispanic population needs to rise up and smash the gringo. it s very inflammatory language and i m stunned, i thought i knew a lot about american politics, i didn t know this stuff was being taught. what do you make of it, professor? it s possible that there are a few rogue teachers somewhere that are going above and beyond what the curriculum suggests, but pedagogy of the oppressed is a book about actually multiculturalism. it s a book about progressive education. it s used all over the country to encourage dialogue with countries.