founders of the Trek Bicycle Corporation.” My mother told this to me a few months back when we were reminiscing on the good ol ’ days. Waterloo‚ one of the smallest towns I have ever been too‚ is home to the success of French history. Its Trek bicycles are now the Tour de France winning frames that brought Lance Armstrong his victories and brought the midwest its spotlight on making the first American bike frames to win the world ’s most prestigious bicycle race. By 1984‚ Trek was at its peak
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The Great trek The Voortrekkers comprised two groups from the eastern frontier region of the Cape Colony‚ semi-nomadic pastoralists known as Trekboers‚ and established farmers and artisans known as Grensboere‚ or Border Farmers. Together these groups were later called Voortrekkers Pioneers. While most settlers who lived in the western Cape later known as the Cape Dutch did not trek eastward‚ a small number did. The first colonists‚ who arrived in 1652 to set up a "depot for the provosion of ships"under
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Theory of Development – Social Pedagogy. Social Pedagogy is an academic discipline concerned with theory and practice of holistic education and care. Social pedagogy is a ’function of society’ – it reflects how a given society at a given time thinks about education and upbringing‚ about the relationship between the individual and society‚ and about social welfare for its marginalised members. Consequently‚ social pedagogues work within a range of different settings‚ from early years through adulthood
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Social Pedagogy What is social pedagogy? Social pedagogy is concerned with well-being‚ learning and growth. This is underpinned by humanistic values and principles which view people as active and resourceful agents highlight the importance of including them into the wider community‚ and aim to tackle or prevent social problems and inequality. Social pedagogy uses the holistic approach to education in the broadest sense‚ the centrality of relationships‚ and the use of observation and reflection
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1. Critical Pedagogy Kurt Love‚ Ph.D. Central Connecticut State University 2. Critical Pedagogy • Major Focus: Understanding and disrupting power imbalances that are present in educational settings especially connected to issues of race and class • Etymology: Critical Social Theory‚ Frankfurt School of Thought‚ Michel Foucault‚ Marxism‚ Critical Race Theory • Major Contributors: W.E.B. DuBois‚ Carter Woodson‚ Paulo Freire‚ bell hooks‚ Henry Giroux‚ Joe Kincheloe‚ Peter McLaren‚ Antonia Darder
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Social pedagogy As an idea social pedagogy first started being used around the middle of the nineteenth century in Germany as a way of describing alternatives to the dominant models of schooling. However‚ by the second half of the twentieth century social pedagogy became increasingly associated with social work and notions of social education in a number of European countries. Social pedagogy is based on humanistic values stressing human dignity‚ mutual respect‚ trust‚ unconditional appreciation
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed examines the struggle for equality and liberty within the educational system and proposes a new pedagogy. One of Paulo Freire’s fundamental arguments in Pedagogy of the Oppressed is that education is political. Freire describes a sharp difference between the two forms of education‚ both of which are explicit and intentional‚ education for “liberation” and education for “domestication”. Freire argues that oppression is not incidental to society but is integrated. Freire states
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The Pedagogy of the Oppressed What does the opinion expressed in Paulo Freire’s “banking” education metaphor really say about modern society and the disenfranchised? Freire begins Chapter Two of his novel “Pedagogy of the Oppressed‚” by analyzing the teacher-student relationship that is characteristic of the Socratic/Lecture Teaching Methods. Freire refers to these teaching methods as “the banking concept of education‚” where the students are considered empty bank accounts just passively and
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In “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”‚ Chapter 2‚ Paulo Freire is contrasting different educational processes. Freire discusses his beliefs of how modern education is forced by the state onto students and the greater public‚ as a violent oppression. The ruling elite’s attempt to moderate the student and population at large‚ by controlling their thoughts and culture through a process of instruction of an ideal perception of reality that they preconceived for the oppressed. Freire’s way of explaining this
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color. She is a thin woman. The man‚ as they are walking is pointing things out to the woman‚ things in the distance. He seems to speak a lot about the things he is pointing at. He has black hair and is wearing a shirt or a jacket that reminds me of Star Trek: TNG‚ or other similar sci-fi attire‚ goldish in color and almost sparkly; the edges a 2” (at least) thick line of slightly lighter color around the outer edges of the garment. The setting appears to be sand in color‚ Egypt would be the closest reference
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