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Teaching Language As A Political Act, Roberto E. Bahruth
Teaching Language As A Political Act, Roberto E. Bahruth
Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations
"The most powerful act in the world is to name something" Noam Chomsky "Any way of seeing the world is also a way of not seeing the world." Gregory Bateson
An important dimension of critical pedagogy includes the questioning of traditional terminology used to explain reality. In the process of schooling people often learn language which supports the thinking of the dominant paradigm. Many become fluent in the language of impossibility as they are schooled. In response to this, I always try to keep in mind two central points as I teach languages: One is to undo the damage of …