Teaching+as+a+Subversive+Activity


 * “Key Word":
 * The profession of teaching must be innovative in order to bring students to their full academic and social possibilities.
 * Summary:
 * One way I could use this information in my preparation as a teacher includes opening my eyes to more options as far as broadening my lesson planning. The topics we teach could be expanded upon. Also, the learner should be the main focus here. This reading shares an innovative idea that focuses on the learner being forced to find answers to these questions. Another helpful tool this article provides is many stimulating questions that could be used as bell-ringers or other activities. The conversation among the class that we read was riveting. Students were participating by asking questions. It would be interesting to see how best to help students understand that asking questions is a very useful tool in their educational career.
 * Questions are crucial to our every day life. Framing questions a certain way changes the possibilities for answers entirely. Similarly, asking a certain question to one person may result in one answer while another person may have a completely different understanding. This chapter reflects an innovative idea about how we as a society understand “subjects.” Labeling thus creates arbitrary meanings. This chapter reflects the idea that asking questions and finding answers is a source of knowledge.
 * If I could ask the authors several questions, they would include the following:
 * Who is to say what types of questions would prove to be intellectually stimulating?
 * Each individual teacher?
 * How would this new innovative educational system work beyond this theory?
 * How would it be put into practice?
 * How frequently would the answers to these questions change?
 * Furthermore, in a world that changes as rapidly as it does, how do we determine what questions to ask?
 * Questions to ask:
 * What is wrong in the world?
 * What types of changes would you make if you were president?
 * What sustains life?
 * What makes up life?
 * What is “change?”
 * Where do you see yourself in ten years?
 * What is the meaning of life?
 * What are your goals?
 * What can you do to change the world?