Assignment 1C

The first person that I chose to write about is David C. Laurice. I learned a couple of interesting facts Dave. One thing I think is cool is that he has collected Caribbean music most of his life. Another thing is he is a teacher and he has his own radio show.

Dave definitely had a lot of interesting facts that he learned about Paulo Friere. Something new I learned is his ideas about understanding the world of the children that teachers work with. There was one particular quote by Paulo on Dave's page that I felt I could really relate to. It is the following:

"Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe of their dreams, the language with which they skillfully defend themselves from the aggressiveness of their world. What they know independently of the school and how they know it."

-Paulo Freire

The second persons blog that I read was by Melanie J. Hall. She is taking this class to fulfill a credit in the general education area and she lives 37 miles from the J.C.

The first interesting fact that I learned from Melanie's blog about Paulo Friere is that in 1962 he taught 300 sugarcane workers how to read and write in only 45 days. I think that is very impressive. Also, in 1964 Paulo was imprisoned as a traitor for 70 days and exiled to Bolivia.

Assignment 1B

Paulo Freire wrote a book called the "Pedagogy of The Oppressed". Freire was known for attacking what was called the "Banking Concept of Learning".In this concept it was believed that the student was an empty account until the teacher filled it. Freire strongly believed that education was to be interactive between the parent and teacher.

In 1946, Freire became the director of the Pernambuco Dept. Of Education and culture of SESI ( The Social Service of Industry). This was a government agency that was paid for by the factory workers where they created programs to better the standards of living for their workers.

There are many Paulo Freire Institutes around the world but the first was established in 1991 in Sao Paulo. It was established to extend and elaborate upon his theories of popular education. The headquarters is at the UCLA Graduate School of Information Studies. Here you can find many of the Paulo Freire archives. The director is Dr. Carlos Torres.

Sources of information:

*Wikipedia

*Freires life and work
By Peter Lownd-UCLA

Assignment 1A

1. What is your first name only (NOT last name)

My name is Jade.

2. Why are you taking this class and what do you hope to learn

I am taking this class becuase it is a requirement for my A.A. It looked really interesting and I figured I might as well choose a class about something that interests me. I have always been interested in Humanities. I am going into Human Services and I well deal with all kinds of people and maybe I will learn something in this class that will help me in my field. I am really unsure of what kind of things I will learn but I do love learning new things.

3. How far do you live from SRJC main campus (go to google, maps to get the SPECIFIC answer; for this you type in your address and 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA to find the exact mileage. EXAMPLE: 2.6 miles from campus. The goal here is to use new tools available to us. You can always come back to edit this)

I live 4.43 miles away from the campus

4. What do you think of when you think "Latin America and the Caribbean"?

I think of far away excotic beaches and beautiful places. I think of diffrent cultures and diffrent kinds of foods and peoples. For some reason sunny beaches come to mind. I also think of vacation places.

5. Have you created a blog or webpage in the past?

I have never created this kind of blog but I have messed around with Myspace.