In Peter McLauren's Critical Pedagogy, I found, first off, that he was much more easy to understand in comparison to the previous articles we have read.
I really like how he goes into the idea that knowledge is socially constructed. He explains that this knowledge comes to be when people of a the same race or social class agree. It is interesting that groups of people can look at a situation so differently from one another, like women's viewpoints on things verses those of white men. I love that his idea of critical pedagogy asks why knowledge occurs like this.
I also really loved his topic of hidden curriculum. My understanding is that this are the things that get taught, whet ere or not they were meant to, outside of a normal lesson. These can include rules and regulations in the school. But it also includes behavior, and the way that the teacher teaches and reprimands her students. He talks about how boys generally talk more in class or do not raise their hands to answer, but girls are the ones who get in trouble for this things more often. I think it is interesting that as a society we preach that men ad women should be treated equally, and yet we still subconsciously except different things from each gender.
I am very interested to see how our in class discussion plays out, especial since I feel more confident in this reading.
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