What brought you to Evergreen?
This  program is based in Freire's Pedagogy of  the Oppressed. We don't teach Freire's pedagogy, we learn it by building a student-centered environment, a learning community.

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Peter Elbow, in his book "Embracing Contraries" gives a summary of Paulo Freire's liberatory education.  Elbow makes the point well that while it is  relatively easy to claim a Freireian approach to teaching, it is much harder to actually do it. He summarizes the main points as:
1) The teacher must become a collaborator and ally of the students, not a  supervisor.
2) The subject (whatever the name of the course) must be the lives of the students, reflected back to the student as a problem or source of contradiction.
3) The goal must be not just to change the student but to work with the student to change the world.
4) The process must be rational and cognitive, rather than affective, involving critical thinking, problem-posing, looking for contradictions, and using metacognition.

Working together we go through this process. We look  for other works in education that could help us in our journey. There are works from Evergreen faculty in the form of books or articles that we study.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays we get together to celebrate our work, to share our findings and to bring our new questions to the community. When we can't make it to class we participate using our class list, our web crossing site, or emailing our faculty.

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Using our learning tools -
The link is:  http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/reconciliation/reconciliationtools.htm
Are you a Master student?
M.I. survey.
 
You are invited to attend a workshop on: Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment. 

Responding to the Four Questions to build the emerging curriculum.

Students are asked to answer four important educational questions:

What do I plan to do?

How do I plan to do it?

What do I plan to learn?

What difference will it make?

At this point, you may want to share your emerging plan with the rest of us via web crossing or just by sending it to the program list. This way you may find out about similar proposals or receive feedback. This may lead you to learn about Bloom's Taxonomy.

Workshop on Bloom's Taxonomy; Critical Thinking, Richard Paul's work; Multiple Intelligences theory; Freire's Pedagogy, 
Choice Theory; how do we apply it in class? 
Creating the Covenant, reading self-evaluations at TESC, using seminars, instructional strategies, rubrics, self-evaluations, workshops, films.
Learning new Communication tools: web X
Writing across the curriculum. 
Diagnose writing skills using Web Crossing training: ask 3 to 5 questions, one by one, the next one is
Computer Literacy: e-mail, web crossing, power point, dreamweaver, photoshop, imovies.
Campus resources: CPJ, KAOS radio, library, communications, CRC...

Suggested readings and materials for the year:
Intelligence Reframed-Gardner-0465026117;
Pedagogy of the Oppressed-Freire-0826412769;
A People's History of US-Zinn-0060937319

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Other suggested materials:

The Dancing Wu Li Masters-Zukov-055326382x;
Ethnography A Way of Seeing-0761990917;
Ceremony-Silko-0140086838
The Way to Rainy Mountain-Momaday-0826304362;
Black Elk Speaks-Neihardt-0803261705
Love Medicine-Erdrich-0060975547;
American Indian Women-Bataille-0803260822;
The Mayan Calendar-Calleman-0970755805;
Woman Native Other-Trinh-0253205034;
Coming Into Being-Thompson-0312176929

Peggy McIntosh's White Privilege article.

Current Historical events:
-the Zapatistas in Mexico,
-Israeli-Palestinian relations;
-The FARC in Colombia,
-The Last Decade of XX Century in Peru,
-The Makah Whaling in the NW.
-War against Terrorism, the new wars.