Engaged Pedagogy By Bell Hooks

"Engaged Pedagogy"p. 69 , Engaged Pedagogy, Bell Hooks
I began by looking in the dictionary to find out exactly want the word pedagogy means "science of learning" after reading the meaning I had better understanding of the article. I believe that we all start with a desire to be. What is to be? To be a doctor, lawyer, social worker and in the case of the author, she wanted to be a teacher. She not only wanted to teach her students, she wanted to help them in other areas of life to have what she called a" Progressive, holistic education"( p.69).

I agree an education should teach you more so that in the process of learning you find yourself.
Bell Hooks used the words "freedom and free of experiences and biases" p.69 She questioned
if "engaged Pedagogy" should include teaching students to evolve into a complete self, I believe that all this and more should be taught by teachers.

The Achievement of Desire By Richard Rodriguez

"Scholarship Boy", Page 431, The Achievement of Desire, Richard Rodriquez
I found the term "scholarship boy" the term the author uses to describe himself and also used to set him apart from his family. He says that "For although I was a very good student, I was also a very bad student" because, as he writes later he is "--the working class child struggling for
academic success." (Rodriguez, p.431,444)

I believe that he was looking to be very different from his parents and the way he wanted to achieve this success he decided to aim for at a very age was by by the separation, he gains by
first speaking English without his Spanish accent. He later found that he needed the knowledge
that you only find by reading, and he used this knowledge to travel away to college, where he became the true "Scholarship Boy" who was rewarded with his scholarship to college.
He stated that his brother and two sisters were also successful in life but that " "ambition set me apart" (Rodriguez,p.431)

He was different from other members of his family in this approach to obtaining an "end" or education. Here he was more active in learning to be a student who was taught how to read in silence. He says it best that "He has used education to remake himself" (Rodriguez, p. 444)
I agree that he did remake himself from his early life as a child.

Inventing the University By David Bartholomae

"The commonplace stands by itself. For this writer, it does not need to be elaborated. By virtue of having written it, he has completed the essay and established the contact by which we may
be spoken to as equals: "In whatever form creativity takes, whether it be music, art, or science, it is an important aspect of our lives because it enables us to be individuals."
Page 519, Inventing the University,David Bartholomae

Here the author is telling us that the way we write about the things we have in common, those
things in our lives that we all share, serve as a point of separation when we enter college. The author David Bartholomae, uses example of essays written by freshman to demonstrate the differences in academic discourses used in the essays and how the essays were used to locate the more advanced students. For the academic discourse language used in the essays had been learned in High School.

For me, the quote shows the need to establish a writing style that gives you the ability to communicate to teachers in a language that is creative and unique. I must develop a new style of writing and begin to write in the language of higher learning which is the academic discourse of the University. In this language I hope to be creative!