Engaged Pedagogy

In Engaged Pedagogy "That learning process comes easiest to those of us who teach who also believe that there is an aspect of our vocation that is sacred; who believe that our work is not merely to share information but to share in the intellectual and spiritual growth of our student" (p67).
This quote sums up the article on Engaged Pedagogy. I agree with Bell hooks idea of teacher are not to just information, they are their to be role model of the students. Hooks felt in some classes professors were like dictators in the classrooms. I agree that a professor should never be seen as dictators in their classrooms. The teachers should always be seen as role model, and student should not fear from their teachers. But then Hooks talks about professors like Freire, whose style of teaching made him improve his weaknesses.

Inventing the university

I liked Bartholomae's paper on "Inventing the University". He brought up interesting examples of student essays and how they have to be specific or "specialized" in their writing to satisfy academic standards (p. 511). I liked this essay it makes u think out of the box. It shows their isn't one way to write a paper, if you wouldn't write that way you wouldn't get good grade. But as many other people in the blogs said that all our life we are told to write over papers this way. If we would use big words in our paper teacher will be impressed with out using our mind. Instead of focusing on what the paper should be about we tend to think what big word should i use in this paper that would give me a good grade. I know i have done that many time. But the blame can't be all on us. That's how we are thought in schools. But in this essay i see that the writer trying to tell u that they way u write isn't wrong. As long as u know what your topic is and u write what u believe in rather then writing just to get a good grade.

Problem of Academic Writing

"If academic writing is bullshit, then bullshit is what we teach."(p374) When i was reading this article this quotation gave me hard time understanding it. Just because there people out their who brake the system and write stuff that have no meaning or is just bullshit that does not gives us write to say that the whole system is bullshit. If there is bad stuff in the academic system then it is job of the teachers to say ok this is not worthy of collage level classes or i will not make my student buy that book. But to say just cause there is bad academic writing is out there the whole system is bullshit is wrong. If we look at it that way then in what ever field u look in u will see bullshit.