Reponse to Critical Pedagogy

Within the first couple pages of this chapter, I read a lot of infomation that was a lot more tied to education than the two chapters of oppression. I liked to passaged about macro and micro objectives. The difference between these two is that macro is designed to allow students to make connections between the content and structure of the course and how it relates to the larger social reality, while micro is about the course content the purpose of the content. I think I understand critical pedagogy better than oppression because it focuses on how and why knowledge gets constructed the way it does and how our everday understanding is produced and lived out, and how knowledge applies to social functions. Also, critical pedagogy is concerned with understanding a relationship between power and knowledge. As the chapter discussed, there is a dominant class that hegemonizes lower cultures. By this, there is a system of power and dominance over classes that does not have the power to resist a system of educational oppression. The dominant class uses their power and knowledge to give information to the lower class without teaching them to question the system that they are in. Even still however, I am not quite sure of how hegemony ties into my understanding of critical pedagogy. Like all of our discussions so far, after class I will have a greater understanding of this article after I talk with my peers. I like collaboration over our assigned texts because each students takes away a little piece of the text, and when we all come together, there is a full picture of the article.