Emily Gulli

Sophia Anzalone
Jamiah Harrison
Critical Pedagogy-
-Theorists: ​Paulo Freire, but many others wrote critical pedagogy texts as well (Henry Giroux,
Peter McLaren, and Roger Simon).

● Critical Pedagogy is a teaching philosophy that encourages students to become critically

conscious. Not necessarily to question everything they have learned or their teachers, but
to question social institutions and traditions. A sense of social justice can be achieved, or
a student can become a more active, empowered member of society. All in all, this
teaching philosophy aims to liberate students from oppression through critical thinking.
The role of the teacher in this theory is to, first and foremost, establish a sense of
authority for the students. They should then encourage open discussion and questioning
in which the students are responsible for their own thoughts and learning. Similarly, the
role of the learner is to dig deeper into what their learning and go beyond myths, cliches,
traditions, etc. This can be done through further reading and questioning while reading,
among other things.

-2 links to sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZljTKhd6hsA
http://faculty.education.illinois.edu/burbules/papers/critical.html

-Explanation of drawing:
My drawing paints the setting of a teacher bringing up a controversial issue in society. To help
students engage in question and think deeper about the issue at hand, the teacher prompts them
with the question, “What do you think about this?” The students in the drawing each then each
respond in their own unique way. One student ponders, “I wonder why this has been happening
for years…” This is an excellent example of critical thinking skills being used by a student. The
question marks and the student sitting on top of the books are meant to represent the concept of
students questioning traditions in society and the things they are learning.
Situated Learning-
-Theorists: ​Developed by​ ​Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger and includes the work of Dewey and
Vygotsky.

-The situated learning theory believes that students are more likely to learn through actively
participating in what they are learning rather than sitting through long lectures. This theory wants
students to go through experiences that will further their knowledge through active processes.
The role of the learner in this theory should go out to have real life experiences, such as going on
a field trip where students are in an environment where it is unfamiliar. The role of the teacher
should strive to make experiences such as these available for the students. Another example of
this would be JMUke. JMUke places undergraduate students who are learning how to become
future music educators in a situation where they are able to interact and teach others how to play
the ukulele. By physically going out and experiencing thing you wouldn’t in a classroom setting,
it furthers students knowledge in more ways than one. As a future music educator myself, I want
to have as many experiences as I can that including working with students by actually learning
how to play instruments or learning a piece of music. I believe that this theory is very important
in regards to being an educator!

2 links to sources:
https://www.niu.edu/facdev/_pdf/guide/strategies/situated_learning.pdf
http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Situated_learning_theory

Explanation of drawing:
My picture is describing all of the different events that teachers could get their students involved
in. I drew an undergraduate student who is going through the process of student teaching. I also
drew different types of sports including soccer, surfing, tennis, volleyball, and more because by
getting students out and actively participating, these students learn more. Students who
physically go out into what they are studying whether it is music, an instrument, or sport, one
will learn more by doing it. This way students are able to learn technical things that they may
have not encountered by just learning about it in a lecture setting.
Social Learning Theory-
- Theorists: ​Albert Bandura and many others
● The Social Learning Theory is the belief that people learn behaviors through the
observation of others, then impersonate what they have observed. A good example of this
would be The Bobo Doll experiment. This experiment measured the children’s behavior
after seeing the model get rewarded, get punished or experience no consequence for
beating up the Bobo doll. There are Four types of cognitive and behavioral processes.
Attention, retention, Motor reproduction, Reinforcement these are the four things that
will be expressed in the drawing. The role of the teacher is to enforce the students to pay
attention and say a phrase and have the students say it back. The role of the student is to
listen and restate the phrase, in the end, they get a prize for saying the right thing.These
steps repeat the more the students listen to the teacher. In the end, the students will get a
prize for everything they do right
-2 links to sources:
https://www.simplypsychology.org/bandura.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqScOIrHx2A
-Explanation of drawing:
● For My drawing, I expressed a situation in the classroom. In this situation, the students
are paying attention to the teacher as she says words of foods for Thanksgiving. This
process is expressing the four steps of the cognitive and behavioral process. The first one
is attention, the students sat down at the teacher grabbed their attention. The second one
is retention, the teacher says the phrase to get the students to recognize it and remember.
The third one is motor reproduction where she asks the student to say the word back to
her. Lastly is Reinforcement, this is where the student says the word and in the end gets a
prize for saying it.