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JAMES A. BANKSSYLVIA ASHTON-WARNER
PAULO FREIRE
THREE INSPIRING EDUCATORS
James A. Banks
Born September 24th, 1941. Grew up as an African American in Arkansas during the time of
the Jim Crow laws. He walked 5 miles to get a formal education at the McCullough
Union School. He graduated from Robert Russa Moton High School in 1960. He obtained his associates degree 3 years later. Along with a
bachelor's degree in elementary education and social science with honors the following year.
He went on to receive his masters degree and PhD in these fields from Michigan State University.
Banks married Cherry A. McGee February 15, 1969. He became the first black professor in the College of Education
at UW, as well as the founding director of UW's Center for Multicultural Education.
Contributions
father of multi-cultural education developed countless concepts, approaches, and principles of curriculum for educators across the
nationto help them teach a multicultural nation.developed techniques for teaching and assessing specific
ethnic groups.has helped start a movement to reform textbooks so that
they include the perspective of different cultures, not just the dominant one.
Contributions
5 dimensions of Multicultural Education
content integration knowledge construction equity pedagogy prejudice reduction empowering school culture and social
structure
Sylvia Ashton Warner
New Zealand, December 17, 1908 - April 28, 1984
Mother was a teacher, father stayed home (suffered from rheumatoid arthritis), nine children
Pursued teaching although she was more interested in the arts
Not wholeheartedly attracted to teaching at first because of mother's neglect and strictness
Determined to find a motherly and loving figure - eventually desired to BE that for students
Contributions She is most famous and known for her educational
methods that she wrote in her 1963 thesis called Teacher.
There was a movie made about Sylvia and her life called “Sylvia.”
Her famous book Teacher, expresses her ideas for education.
Sylvia broke free from the traditional methods of teaching.
Ashton-Warner used physical nurturing of students.
She wrote many other short stories that became well known throughout New Zealand and the rest of the world.
Paulo FreireInspired by Marxist ideals and praxis - the doctrine that when actions are based on sound theory and values, they
can make a real difference in the world
• Freire was born September 19, 1921 in Recife, Brazil. • Freire enrolled to Law School at the University of Recife in 1943 and recieved his legal bar but never practiced
law, instead worked as a teacher in secondary schools teaching Portuguese. • In 1944, he married Elza Maia Costa de Oliveira, a fellow teacher. The two worked together for the rest of their
lives and had five children. • Working primarily among the illiterate and poor, Freire began to embrace liberation theology• In 1962 Freire taught the sugarcane workers that would be a great stepping-stone for his success • In 1964, a military coup put an end to Freire's efforts to teach the sugarcane workers and was imprisoned as a
"traitor" for 70 days and was exiled to Bolivia. • In 1967, Freire published his first book, Education as the Practice of Freedom. • He followed this with his most famous book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, but because of the political feud between
Freire (a Christian socialist) and the successive authoritarian military dictatorships, Freire's most popular book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, wasn't published in his own country of Brazil until 1974, when General Ernesto Geisel became the then dictator president
• Freire was took a short visiting professorship at Harvard University in 1969 for his popular book• In 1970, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was published in both Spanish and English. • Worked in Geneva, Switzerland to work as a special education advisor to the World Council of Churches • In 1979, he was able to return to Brazil, and moved back in 1980. • Freire joined the (Brazil) Workers' Party in the city of São Paulo• In 1986, his wife Elza died. Freire remarried to Maria Araújo, who continues with her own educational work. • Freire died of Congestive heart failure on May 2, 1997.
Paulo Freire’s Main Contributions
In 1962, Freire taught 300 poor sugarcane workers how to read and write in just 45 days This led to the creation of better sanitation
facilities for the workers (made by themselves) His book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed published in
1968, brought his ideals out to the public that teaching people of poverty actually improves their lives both mentally and physically (helping health conditions, etc…) Acted as an advisor on education reform in former Portuguese colonies in Africa (particularly Guinea Bissau and Mozambique)
Supervised the adult literacy project for Sao Paulo, Brazil, while participating in the (Brazil) Workers’ Party
Appointed Secretary of Education for Sao Paolo in 1988 and appointed for several other high positions in the Education field in the years before