SUMMARY

15-minute oral presentation that is uploaded online.
due on the 3rd of April at 2pm.
Worth 40%

Task:

Using the weekly readings, along with other readings given to you in the weekly lectures, you are to select 3 questions from the list below and create a recorded video response of 5 minutes each for each question.

QUESTIONS:

1. What does ‘decolonising knowledge’ mean in the context of classroom teaching and learning, and why is it important for teachers to enact in their classroom? Provide example/s and/or scenarios to help support your response.

2. What does the concept ‘intersectionality’ mean, and why is it important for teachers to apply it to their everyday practices in school? Provide example/s and/or scenarios to illustrate and support your response.

3. The following quote is from Santoro (2009, p. 41):

…teachers need to come to know themselves as ethnic and encultured if they are to understand their students and engage with the complexities of teaching for diversity. This means understanding how their own ethnic identities shape their teaching identities, their classroom practices and their relationships with students.

Explain what the term ‘positionality’ means and why it is important for teachers to appreciate their ‘ethnic and encultured’ selves. Provide example/s and/or scenarios to help illustrate and support your answer.

4. What are ‘deficit discourses’, and why is it a problem for teachers to draw from them? Use example/s and/or scenarios to support your response.

5. What does the term ‘hidden curriculum’ mean, and why is it important for teachers to know about it? Integrate example/s and/or scenarios in your answer to support your response.

Extra Notes:

You need to provide relevant points from seeking readings and additional readings NOT from the lecture slides. they have to be properly cited.
Also do your own research to get a higher mark than just a 1.
Verbally cite academic sources in your presentation.
You are being assessed on your ability to apply sociological concepts through the intergration of relevant examples and/or scenarios in your response. therefore, do NOT use examples or scenarios that have been previously given in lectures. Come up with your own or research the public domain.
Use visual aids to help explain your points better. For example, you can just screen record yourself reading your powerpoints but at least make it interesting.
submit your 3 × 5 responses in 1 15 minute video.
Do not submit it last minute, it takes a while to upload.