Reflexive Practice

Language, learning & teaching.

Reflections on language, learning, and teaching — research translated for the classroom, commentary on policy and practice, and the occasional quote that’s stuck with me.

Ivian in the classroom
Quotes
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“There is no teaching without learning.”
Paulo Freire
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“Education as a form of intervention in the world.”
Paulo Freire
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"Freire wisely asserted that “dialogue requires humility and tolerance” (1998/2001, p. 64). It has been established in the principles we propose here that educators and students are active thinkers who act upon their worlds through dialogue and critical consciousness. Because teachers and students recognize their human, social, and historical condition can be changed, they reassert Freire’s knowledge that (There is no teaching without) “awareness of our unfinishedness” (1998/2001, p. 51).
Boruchowski & Pontier (Upcoming)
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