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Linda Chambers, a retired college professor of Communication and English, has spent a lifelong career delivering client-centered interactive learning in a variety of environments. As a Chicago native, she earned both B.A. and M.A. degrees at the University of Illinois at Chicago and later earned graduate certification in English Studies with an emphasis in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from Northwestern State University in Louisiana. She has taught Public Speaking, Composition, Research and Writing, and Business Writing. Currently, she devotes her time tutoring students in English and provides much needed assistance in critiquing, editing, and proofreading their work.
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With the increasing tensions occurring among racial and ethnic groups across the United States--p... more With the increasing tensions occurring among racial and ethnic groups across the United States--precipitated by violence, segregation and isolation, economic instability, politics, misconceptions and fear--the call for calm and tolerance have been made. This research presents an overview of contributing factors that provoke the racial/ethnic divide among groups in America and devotes a small section addressing an approach to intercultural communication.
Critical pedagogy is a movement for change in education that has been largely motivated by the em... more Critical pedagogy is a movement for change in education that has been largely motivated by the emergence of political, social, and economic injustices that have resulted in our lack of trust for public goods and services brought about by the powerful government, financial, and corporate elites “whose strangulating control over politics renders democracy corrupt and dysfunctional.” (Polychroniou). The concept of critical pedagogy, which initially started under the leadership of Paulo Freire, a radical Brazilian educator, philosopher, author, and an advocate of the oppressed, has spread into the North America educational system and across the globe (“Paulo Freire”). While critical pedagogy has been largely addressed as a theoretical concept, its applications and measurement for success among our student populations on all educational tiers—elementary, secondary, and higher education--both in the academic institutions and in programs outside of these institutions--are being closely studied and analyzed. There is widespread belief among scholars that the changing climate of our current educational institutions are not adequately meeting the needs of our student population in a rapidly changing society. Questions are raised about whether these institutions are moving in the right direction with outmoded, traditional practices of standardized education that is meant to produce students who are more like robots rather than critical thinkers. This paper will assess the merits of critical pedagogy in composition as a transformative approach towards social change. A critical review of literacy applications within a multicultural context, addressing the virtues of critical pedagogy, and providing various frameworks for its integration in and out of the classroom will be provided.
With the increasing tensions occurring among racial and ethnic groups across the United States--p... more With the increasing tensions occurring among racial and ethnic groups across the United States--precipitated by violence, segregation and isolation, economic instability, politics, misconceptions and fear--the call for calm and tolerance have been made. This research presents an overview of contributing factors that provoke the racial/ethnic divide among groups in America and devotes a small section addressing an approach to intercultural communication.
Critical pedagogy is a movement for change in education that has been largely motivated by the em... more Critical pedagogy is a movement for change in education that has been largely motivated by the emergence of political, social, and economic injustices that have resulted in our lack of trust for public goods and services brought about by the powerful government, financial, and corporate elites “whose strangulating control over politics renders democracy corrupt and dysfunctional.” (Polychroniou). The concept of critical pedagogy, which initially started under the leadership of Paulo Freire, a radical Brazilian educator, philosopher, author, and an advocate of the oppressed, has spread into the North America educational system and across the globe (“Paulo Freire”). While critical pedagogy has been largely addressed as a theoretical concept, its applications and measurement for success among our student populations on all educational tiers—elementary, secondary, and higher education--both in the academic institutions and in programs outside of these institutions--are being closely studied and analyzed. There is widespread belief among scholars that the changing climate of our current educational institutions are not adequately meeting the needs of our student population in a rapidly changing society. Questions are raised about whether these institutions are moving in the right direction with outmoded, traditional practices of standardized education that is meant to produce students who are more like robots rather than critical thinkers. This paper will assess the merits of critical pedagogy in composition as a transformative approach towards social change. A critical review of literacy applications within a multicultural context, addressing the virtues of critical pedagogy, and providing various frameworks for its integration in and out of the classroom will be provided.