A Paradigm for Transformative Education

First Point

The need to rebuild the education system

• "integrating elements for knowledge"
• The prevailing American view of education does not see culture differences positively.
• "if we are to achieve the objectives of reorientation and integration in education."
• "critical relativism"
• "The Need for a New Organon in Education."
  

Second Point
People are focused on race, location, and class more than education

• "dominant culture"
• "institutional inertia to achieving diversity"
• Lacke argues that racial temperaments are regularly traceable to historical economic and social causes.
• Cultural pluralism.
• "the belief that before people of different races and cultures can live together they must adhere to the same principles and values.
• "relativism"
  

Third Point
People need others to look up to (Role Models)

• Our behavior, thoughts, perception, values, goals, morals, and cognitive processes count as knowledge that is derived from our cultures.
• "functional adaptations"
• this approach also understands that we truly know ourselves only when we know ourselves in relation to others; similarly, we can appropriately appropriate one another's experiences.

These are the three most important points in this story to me. In the African American culture today; i see a lack of role models that children can look up to, i see that while going to school that there are other obstacles that you still have to face; like race, location, and things to wear; i also see that some school systems need to be rebuild, and help more people get educated so that others can feed off one another.