The Pedagogical Dimensions of Critical Pedagogy

I have always wanted to teach inner city. This article was interesting to me because it pertained to multiculturalism. I really liked the section about teaching texts that are taught in the class and how they can be taught in a multicultural way. I think that any text can be adapted to a way that can be applicable to all cultures and can be related to everyone. I remember from The Freedom Writer's, Erin Gruwell wanted to teach her students Romeo and Juliet because of the "gang" mentality of the Capulets and Montegues. Even though the actual text has nothing to do with race or culture, she found it applicable to the students' lives. I do like the idea of integrating texts of people with color as the protagonist but not simply to cater to the duiferent cultures in the classroom. I think that it can help the students learn different perspectives (CCSS) and help with the cultural gap. 

I like the idea of hegemonic texts being local and included in everyday lives. I think that it makes it more relevant and more closer to home for the students. 

I think it gets really tricky when it comes to teaching traditional texts, but I think there is a way to teach it so that the biases of "American" backgrounds, such as industrial schooling does. 

I remember learning about Vygotsky in Educational Psychology and I liked some points that he had and that he based his theories off of. I liked that the reading pointed out that "tapping into young people's everyday experiences as participants in popular culture to scaffold academic literacies". In my opinion, when a teacher makes whatever text he or she may be reading in class more current and relate it to the lives of the students, it makes it more interesting and more fun to read. In some curriculum's, the texts are still the same, classic pieces of literature like The Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, Huck Finn,  The Great Gatsby, etc. We cannot change the literature that we are given to teach, but we can change how we teach it and how the students can learn it.