My Approach

I foresee my approach to teaching to being a liberationist approach. I don't really see my approach being blended because I see so many advantages to the liberationist appraoch. I really like the liberationist approach because I feel that it best fits with my teaching philosophy. This approach fits me because I believe that education should be about the whole human experience. I believe that what a child learns reflects their past experiences, is integrated into what they know, and will prepare them for the future.

I feel like the liberationist approach is the best way to be taught. I feel as though a person’s educational experiences should always be changing and growing that person. I also feel like all students should have experience with the classics such as Dickens, Shakespeare, and other such materials.

I also like that this approach focuses not on parts and pieces of learning but on the entire extent of human knowledge. I feel like this is the best way to integrate knowledge. A student can see all the connections between what they have already learned and what they are currently learning. I also like this approach because it challenges students to critically think and evaluate what they are learning. I also like the fact that this type of teaching focuses on giving everybody the same type of education while expanding their horizons. It challenges students to ask why the information is being presented and who is giving the information and why the information is important or what they have to gain from acquiring the knowledge. 

My favorite part of this approach is that it focuses not just on the breadth of knowledge but on the depth of knowledge as well and it invites the students to dig deeper into what they are learning.