by Jim Knight | Nov 28, 2016 | Better Conversations Videos |
Common ground, empathy, kindness, and listening are all ways to build bridges and encourage dialogue, especially dialogue with people who see the world differently than we do. But sometimes we simply need to stop conversations that are racist, sexist, and hateful....
by Jim Knight | Nov 16, 2010 | Improving Instruction, Student Learning |
“Dialogue cannot be carried on in a climate of hopelessness. If the dialoguers expect nothing to come of their efforts, their encounters will be empty, sterile, bureaucratic and tedious.” Paulo Freire I learned about the power of hope the first year I taught at...
by Jim Knight | Nov 8, 2010 | Improving Instruction, Student Learning |
Faith in [people] is an a priori requirement for dialogue; the ‘dialogical [person]’ believes in other [people] even before [meeting] them face to face. Paulo Freire What does it mean to teach with faith in our students? When I teach with faith, I truly recognize that...
by Jim Knight | Nov 7, 2010 | Improving Instruction, Student Learning |
[People] who lack humility (or have lost it) cannot come to the people, cannot be their partners in naming the world … Dialogue cannot exist without humility. Paulo Freire What does it mean to teach with humility? I think more than anything it means to ensure that...
by Jim Knight | Nov 4, 2010 | Improving Instruction, Professional Learning, School Reform |
In his masterpiece, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire, describes the dialogical approach to learning that he developed while working mostly with the illiterate poor workers of Brazil. Freire rejects traditional forms of teaching, which he calls banking...
