Problems Of Traditional American Education - 943 Words

Antonia Darder sets a language in Culture and Power in the Classroom that critiques the traditional American educational system while challenging teachers to a new thinking of culture and diversity in the classroom. Using the groundings from several theories, theory and resistance, regimes of truth, and theory of hegemony, she set the platform of the hidden curriculum that is valued in traditional public education. She seeks to use several theoretical frameworks to create a bicultural critical pedagogical approach, which links education to impactful politics. In Culture and Power in the Classroom, Antonia Darder makes is clear that education matters, but yet more importantly that all students matter in their educational experience. As educators there needs to be awareness and consciousness of the hegemonic forces of race, class, culture, ethnicity, gender, and/or ability shape that inferiority within students. Cultural hegemony is so natural, that even in the classroom students are i mmune to the shoddiness of living within the realms of the dominant culture. Darder exposes the problems of traditional American pedagogy. The conventional liberal and conservative discourse of nature versus nature do not challenge the structural underachievement of bicultural students. The use of meritocracy, intelligence testing, track and ability grouping, curriculum, and expectations of teachers perpetuate the blame of students rather than the structure of traditional American educationalShow MoreRelatedHow Does Globalization Affect Cultural Traditions in the Arabic Communities?923 Words   |  4 PagesArab cultural traditions in Arab communities in many ways, like in language, education, media and customs. Globalization is making the world becoming a global village and the result is Arab communities cultural traditions are changing and are threaten to be lost . 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