ASIAN AMERICAN STUDENTS: Culture, Race, Racism, Resistance, and Schooling

1. ASIAN AMERICAN STUDENTS:Culture, Race, Racism, Resistance, and Schooling Holly AyaRaña Lim March 7, 2012 AAS 884

2. Agenda • Agenda Overview (5 mins) • Energizer (10 mins) • Pedagogy (Total 35 mins) • Purpose – Lecture (15 mins) • Context – Materials for Activity (2 mins) • Content & Methods – Class will engage in an activity that practices these elements and report back (plan for 8 mins, report for 7 mins)

3. 4 Elements of Pedagogy Purpose (Why) Context (Who and Where) Content (What) Method (How)

4. Purpose Critical Pedagogy Decolonizing Pedagogy

5. Critical Pedagogy • Eliminate Oppression • Reading the world • Transform the world • Humanization • Self-Actualization

6. Critical Pedagogy • What is the problem, premise, purpose? • AAS educators are strained • Lack alternatives in pedagogical practices

7. Critical Pedagogy • Osajima’s Alternative Pedagogy Objectives: • Reposition students in relation to knowledge (replacing banking method) • Reposition students in relation to the use of knowledge (replacing individual oriented goals with community oriented goals) • Learn issues affecting the education of Asian immigrant students

8. Critical Pedagogy What is the role of the teacher? • not relinquish responsibility • guide the learning process • Students arrive at a critical analysis of power in relation to societal inequalities

9. Critical Pedagogy • How did Osajima guide students in reading and transforming the world? • Did his class also lead to humanization/self-actualization? • If yes, in what ways? • If not, why not?

10. Colonization & Decolonization What if we learn in TREES? We learn in RECTANGLES… (confinement and handed to you) (causality – roots, base, constantly growing)

11. Decolonizing Pedagogy Historical Critique of Colonialism  Anti-Colonial  Decolonization  Challenging Colonial Mentality Consciousness  Social Justice Reconsidered

12. Decolonizing Pedagogy • Historical Critique of Colonialism • reconstruction of the historical situation • anti-colonial

13. Decolonizing Pedagogy • Decolonization • Process • Challenging colonial mentality consciousness

14. Decolonizing Pedagogy • Social Justice Reconsidered • What are some examples?

15. Decolonizing Pedagogy Historical Critique of Colonialism  Anti-Colonial  Decolonization  Challenging Colonial Mentality Consciousness  Social Justice Reconsidered

16. Context, Content & Methods • Activity: Taking into consideration a group discussed in the 7A readings, what content would you teach and how would you do so (method) while using critical pedagogy and decolonizing pedagogy as your purpose. This can be shared as a skit, report back, or any creative way you can think of.

17. Activity • Purpose: Critical Pedagogy & Decolonizing Pedagogy • Context: Type of Asian American Group • Content: What you are teaching • Method: How you are teaching your content in an engaging way (try to avoid banking)

18. Sharing, Discussion, Reflection