think-pair-share-jigsaw!!! --Shor

So after reading the article and doing the activity in class, I found that the activity really helped to understand it. My section for the activity was "education is not and cannot be neutral". This is very true, from what we have learned from this semester. Education teaches us to be naturally curious, and to ask questions, and like what Johnson says, we must talk about stuff. In our group we had a comparison of if someone from Brown university and RIC were taught the same thing, the person from Brown would be looked at as higher than the person who came from RIC. And this is because education is NOT neutral. Here in our FNED class our class is not neutral, we are asked to think, and talk about stuff that shows us how education isn’t neutral. In our group we were able to find three authors that we could make connections to, 1.) Delpit.- if education was neutral we would be enforcing the cultural of power. 2.) Finn and Oakes.- critical thinking (outcomes-Brown student vs. RIC student) 3.) Johnson.- must talk about things and get them out in the open.

--if education was neutral, you would just float their and then the cultural of power would eventually sweep you away down the river.