Open AccessCultivating a Community of Truth Through Critical Pedagogy When Faced with Resistance
Author(s) -
Kevin Jones,
Carol Jo Brazo
Publication year - 2014
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2411-2933
DOI - 10.31686/ijier.vol2.iss3.162
Subject(s) - metaphor , resistance (ecology) , sociology , work (physics) , epistemology , social psychology , social science , psychology , philosophy , linguistics , mechanical engineering , ecology , engineering , biology
This essay will identify how the authors confronted a community of resistance in a Gender and Communication classroom and turned it into a community of truth and tolerance. Working from a theoretical framework of Critical Pedagogy and the work of Parker Palmer, the authors will explore how the classroom is often seen as a culture of fear and disrespect. This culture of fear needs to be confronted by identifying a community of truth as found in two different models of truth. After exploring how to achieve a community of truth when faced with resistance, the authors will explain in great detail the application of a metaphor about “riding the bus” and how this metaphor has sustained them when faced with resistance.