Not redundant, believe it or not!
Through adherence to our critically reflective ideological principles and acting on those ideologies through critically reflective methodology, which always includes ideology, our actions as educators/educands become pedagogy.
In other words…
If our methodology does not adhere to a set of critically reflective and dynamic overarching principles, then we are simply regurgitating what we were taught. We are repeating the mistakes made by those who came before us. When we regurgitate, we fail to take the actions of those who came before us into account in our actions. It is impossible to transcend our past without understanding it and integrating it into our present decisions and actions.
If we, as women and men seek to play a dynamic role in the formation of our society, we must constantly consult the seven pillars: science, market, history, culture, language, politics, and time/truth. Why? As humans we have historically avoided making critical reflection a way of life because for most, it remains a nebulous construct with fuzzy edges. While I admit structuring our thoughts via the 7 Pillars will inevitably fail some (if not all) circumstances in one way or another, they are needed to help create a system by which we can better understand our world.
posted by Unknown @ 3:31 PM
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2 Comments:
What you said is pretty much what I'm saying. We all contain what came before us- both societally and individually. Therefore, we are all subject to ideology.
I know that I do not believe our educational system is equitable. If your're black, get held back, if you're brown, stick around, if you're white...pass go and collect your $200 dollars. It's not the way it's supposed to be in a just world, but that does not make that statement false!
I realized I did not truly answer your post. Sorry. I am an ethnically mixed (New Mexican and white) but racialized white. I could practice what I felt was social justice until the cows came home...and still, as a racialized white man, I will always benefit from being white. No matter how hard white folks try, we still receive psycological wages for being white in this country. And this is not unique to the USA. Japan has their own version. As does China. As does Mexico. The different systems of white supremacy may LOOK different, but they often function exactly the same.
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