'Youth amplified': using critical pedagogy to stimulate learning through dialogue at a youth radio show
SOURCE: Education as Change
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2016
TITLE AUTHOR(S): A.Cooper
KEYWORDS: PEDAGOGY, YOUTH
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9393
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/10127
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/10127
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2016
TITLE AUTHOR(S): A.Cooper
KEYWORDS: PEDAGOGY, YOUTH
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9393
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/10127
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/10127
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Abstract
In this paper the authors describes and analyse how critical pedagogy, an approach to teaching and learning that encourages students to reflect on their socio-political contexts, may stimulate critical consciousness and dialogue at a youth radio show. The participants, who attended four diverse Cape Town high schools and predominantly lived in poor townships, named the show Youth Amplified. Youth Amplified dialogues were catalysed by a range of materials, including documentary films, newspapers and academic articles, which participants engaged with prior to the show. Participants then generated questions, which contributed to the dialogues that took place live on air. Two central themes emerged from the radio shows. First, the values and discourses of elite schools were transported to Youth Amplified and presented as incontestable truths that often denigrated marginalised learners. Second, participants used 'race' as a marker of social difference to make sense of peers and South African society. The author argues that critical pedagogy interventions also need to work with educators to reflect on inequalities and socio-political contexts, if such interventions are to be successful. The show illuminated that young South Africans want to speak about racialised and class-based forms of historical oppression, but that these kinds of discussions require skilled facilitation.-
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