Social Action

In our group we are researching the concept of how as teachers do we motivate students to become socially aware, and hence active within the real life issues that plague them on a daily basis. My own personal research has led me to a strategy of using critical reading in conjunction with classroom discussion in order to build the context behind these issues, and then using what they have learned in the classroom to move outside the walls of class, and take the information out into the community. By removing the learning process from the confines of a classroom, I feel that students can obtain a better understanding of the everyday situations that people are forced to undergo, and accordingly provides them with perspective of the problems within society.

Following the process of going out into the community, the students can then return into the classroom setting, and share their personal experiences, gaining further insight from the experiences of their classmates, creating a community aspect to the learning activity, and also allows students to share their own personal beliefs about how we could possibly move towards a solution of the problem in question. This I feel is a very important action and would potentially lead to a more involved aspect of a curriculum by getting a point across through actual action.