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1. “Advertising tells us who we are and who we should be” (Jean Killbourne, “Killing us Softly 3”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufHrVyVgwRg)This seven minute excerpt from Jean Killbourne’s analysis of the apparent impact of media on gender roles and expectations contained many interesting points. First, I doubt that media creates the image of what men and women ‘should be’, but it clearly

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Critical Pedagogy 1. “We can no longer afford schools peopled by educators who act without being conscious of their assumptions, their choices, and the likely consequences.” (Hinchey, 4)One of Hinchey’s main points in “Becoming a Critical Educator” is that teachers need to spend a lot of time analyzing their beliefs and their actions. Hinchey argues that teachers need to be aware that

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1. “Teaching for joy and justice also begins with the non-negotiable belief that all students are capable of brilliance” (Christensen, “Teaching for Joy and Justice”).Having worked for ten years with students with special needs, I know from experience that all students are, in fact, capable of brilliance. I worked with one particular student, I will refer to him here as Jim, for about two years.

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1. “The behavioral model is concerned with the scientific modification of observable behaviors” (Hardin, 19).Hardin advocates the use of behaviorism in classroom management. While I believe that the behaviorism model has many useful and valuable applications for teachers, it also has serious flaws that teachers must be cognizant of. Hardin states that rewarded behaviors will be increase in

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