COR 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Transformative Learning

• School: Elon University
• Department: Elon Core Curriculum
• Course: COR 309
• Professor: Cherrel Miller Dyce

Document Summary

Central themes (from articles: critical theory & why theory matters, role of constructivism in knowledge construction, positionality & epistemology, types of knowledge, transformational learning. Importance of theory: theory: asks how & why. Internal maps we follow to navigate & make sense of our lives and new things we encounter: human interactions, everything we do in the world (our actions) is guided by a world view (our theory) List & define central theories in your discipline & how they shape thinking: social justice education cultural diversity, critical multicultural education, bronfenbrenner system"s theory, crosses theory, piaget, erikson. Cor454(1: reality: socially constructed, allows for multiple perspectives, questions objectivity & universality, allows for space of positionality. Types of knowledge (**understand these: personal & cultural knowledge, popular knowledge, mainstream academic knowledge, school knowledge, transformative academic knowledge. Informs epistemology: be mindful of, whose voice is more relevant in classroom, narrative of oppressed & oppressor, recognizing our various positions of power.