Curriculum
experts in God’s Own Country have in recent times been seduced by a
mistress in the form of a text called Pedagogy of the Oppressed. I
wouldn’t dare to insult the intelligence
of my readers by telling them that the utopian ideas which this book propagates through
terms such as ‘equality’, ‘revolution’, ‘change’ and ‘social justice’
are really thought provoking!
As
a teacher of English, my only worry is that I cannot make head or tail of the rationale
for making a reference to the ‘mistress’ in question in the Source Book for
teachers of English! My limited intelligence does not evoke in me any inspiration to make use of the
ideas propagated in the ‘book in question’ to the teaching of Grammar which I
believe needs to be properly addressed in curriculum revisions in English.
A
good friend of mine who is the head of the Department of English of a reputed
college in the city with tongue in cheek
even inquired whether the intention of the reference to the ‘mistress’ is to make
teachers of English explore how the ‘Verb’
can assert itself and rise against the oppression by the ‘Noun’ !
Well…,
any comments about the oppressed pedagogy?
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