Critical and Creative Thinking

CRITICAL PEDAGOGY: A CRUCIAL TOOL TO EMPOWER STUDENTS TO CHANGE THE WORLD If we do a search through the internet about the Colombian educational model, we will find things like this: The Colombian educational model was designed, to educate people with values and principles. That sounds interesting under any point of view does it not?  In addition, since we are kids , we are told that we go to schools and universities to acquire knowledge. Events such as these become something very important for life. This fact however, is not completely true. Due to the fact that, we live in a globalized world which has been modified over the years in different areas according to the particular interests of a group of people that represent oligarchies and manipulate several things in the country. That is why I am sure that critical pedagogy is the path to put an end to the indoctrination in which we have grown and have become submissive workers without consciousness about our capacities as ...

CRITICAL PEDAGOGY THE CRUCIAL TOOL FOR EMPOWER STUDENTS TO CHANGE THE WORLD         The Colombian educational model was designed to educate people with values and principles this sounds really interesting isn’t it? What’s more, since we are kids we are told that we go to schools and universities to acquire knowledge that this is something very important for life. But it is not totally truth because due to the fact that, we live in a globalized world, which has been modified over the years in different areas according to the particular interests of capitalism and the work marked. As Marx portrait cited by peter McLaren “schooling simply reproduce class relations and passively indoctrinate students into becoming capitalist”. As a result of this schools and universities have begun to train individuals to become competitive in the working marked and not political subjects who seek to challenge and over throw the oppressive class from the power. That is why I...