Purdue University Week 9 What Motivating This Writer Template Paper

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Write a short essay of 250-300 words

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Write a short essay of 250-300 words

No particular format

No citation and references needed

1) Can you define and describe generosity and charity?
> What connotations come with these words? > What circumstances are associated with these words?

– – Word Document –> student generated list and discussion.

Paulo Freire (1921–1997) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy. He is best known for his influential work Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which is generally considered one of the foundational texts of the critical pedagogy movement.

Freire institute – concepts used by Paulo Freire

https://www.freire.org/paulo-freire/concepts-used-by-paulo-freire

Critical pedagogy is a teaching approach which attempts to help students question and challenge domination, and the beliefs and practices that dominate. In other words, it is a theory and practice of helping students achieve critical consciousness. Critical pedagogic educator Ira Shor defines critical pedagogy as habits of thought, reading, writing, and speaking which go beneath surface meaning, first impressions, dominant myths, official pronouncements, traditional cliches, received wisdom, and mere opinions, to understand the deep meaning, root causes, social context, ideology, and personal consequences of any action, event, object, process, organization, experience, text, subject matter, policy, mass media, or discourse.

In this tradition the teacher works to lead students to question ideologies and practices considered oppressive (including those at school), and encourage liberatory collective and individual responses to the actual conditions of their own lives.

The student often begins as a member of the group or process (including religion, national identity, cultural norms, or expected roles) they are critically studying. After they reach the point of revelation where they begin to view their present society as deeply problematic, the next behavior encouraged is sharing this knowledge with the attempt to change the oppressive nature of the society.

False Generosity – Paulo Freire – Pedagogy of the Oppressed

2) Inventing the discipline: a highly caffeinated survey of rhetoric and composition studies

https://inventingthediscipline.wordpress.com/

In your reflection paper Describe a charitable situation of which you might be critical or skeptical. (due Nov. 4th), also discuss how you might picture a situation of true generosity. How can charity really and truly help people?