Topic # 1
The space of education at WCU. Freire’s challenge for us to reimagine the ways in which we learn doesn’t just ask us to re-shape ourselves intellectually; Freire’s ideas also suggest a need to re-shape the spaces of education. Use your understanding of Freire’s ideas to analyze the space of education at WCU, identifying and proposing the means by which WCU’s space can be deployed to achieve the ends of Freire’s concept of learning.
Team member: Rabi
Working Thesis: According to Friere, the spaces of education bound the ability of a student to think and learn. I will talk about how students should no longer be dependent to come to a certain place to study and teachers should be facilitators to support students in developing their way of thinking and learning to change the education space at WCU.
Quotes:
They have always been “inside”—inside the structure which made them “beings for others.” The solution is not to “integrate” them into the structure of oppression, but to transform that structure so that they can become “beings for themselves.” pg 2
They are treated as individual cases, as marginal persons who deviate from the general configuration of a “good, organized, and just” society. The oppressed are regarded as the pathology of the healthy society, which must therefore adjust these “incompetent and lazy” folk to its own patterns by changing their mentality. pg 2
Positive: I think you thesis is well thought out and the idea of students changing their learning spaces at WCU is a really good idea that I think could be very helpful. I also think the first quote you chose is great and relates to what your trying to say in your thesis.
Constructive: Besides students changing learning spaces at WCU to effectively learn better, what are some other ways space effects students lives here besides in the classroom that you can write about in your essay?
Try and avoid first person writing but other than that the topic is a good choice. Good use of quotes and the thesis relates strongly to topic.