SA 100W Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bertolt Brecht, Terry Eagleton, Defamiliarization
24 Mar 2016
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Perhaps the loftiest goal of education is that all students should gain new capacities to express themselves through their learning. Women"s studies program at the university of windsor expresses this in a wonderful slogan: find your voice. sadly, many students lose their voice in the classroom. They may feel they have nothing to say about the topics at hand, which usually seems to have little to do with their own lives or experiences. Further, they may feel judged in a setting where it seems that the teacher is always evaluating and categorizing students. They actually ind it hard to speak aloud in that setting, feeling a strain that makes it hard to get words out . Finding your voice is more diicult when you are speaking up to power than in a situation of equality or one where you have the power. The classroom is built around an unequal power structure .
