talking points 10

"In school and society, the lack of meaningful participation alienates workers, teachers, and students. This alienation lowers their productivity in class and on the job. I think of this lowered productivity as a performance strike, an unorganized mass refusal to perform well, and informal and unacknowledged strike."

I chose this quote because it really stood out and also applies to everyday life. Students who chose they'd rather just sit there and not learn are choosing to alienate themselves from the rest of the class. this also happens to teachers who don't like to teach the material or even chose to ignore students request for obvious needs of extra help. When workers alienate themselves it causes their companies and consumers problems. People need to be feel more comfortable about participating, and alienation needs to cease to exist

“The teacher brings lesson plans, learning methods, personal experience, and academic knowledge to class but negotiates the curriculum with the students and begins with their language, themes, and understandings. To be democratic implies orienting subject matter to student culture – their interests, needs, speech and perceptions – while creating a negotiable openness in class where the students’ input jointly creates the learning process.”

I like this quote for several reasons. The first is how true it is, when these teachers show up with lesson plans, it's almost impossible to carry them out without first establishing negotiations with the students on what they are capable of handling and what they're able to do. It is also important to learn the students perspectives on the materials they're gonna learn, and their input can help in developing these lesson plans.

"Is the curriculum balanced and multicultural, giving equal attention to men, women, minorities, and nonelite groups, or is it traditionally male-oriented and Euro-centric?"

This is also a very important quote and goes along with the second one i chose. the curriculum and materials taught to the students is very important. Its necessary for these students to learn about all the different cultures, races, sexes, and backgrounds. An evenly divided curriculum allows students of these minorities, sexes, races and cultures to have a learning experience of not only other peoples cultures but their own as well