Essays on Mclaren

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A Closer Glimpse on the Key Terms

As previously observed, it is possible to draw parallels between the following essays and movies and play “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education” by Paulo Freire and Dead Poets Society, “The Achievement of Desire” by Richard Rodriguez and Six Degrees of Separation, and “Ways of Seeing” by John Berger and The Matrix. All three works raise a number of important issues, manifestations of which may be found on the example of the characters of these films and plays. Thus, there are such key terms notions as critical thinking, education, class conflict, racial divide, and power of perspective, which can be ...

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The Artifact: Steve Mclaren, et. al In 2008, there was a YouTube video (supanovasky 2008) that went viral because of the ticklish surprise of many after watching the starkly fake Dutch accent of famous English football manager Steve McLaren during an interview. He was then the manager of the Dutch professional football team FC Twente and was then being interviewed after a respectable but losing game against the English team Arsenal. The sports press all over Europe followed suit in mocking McLaren.

Connecting McLaren to Inter-ethnic Accommodation

McLaren joined Twente after failing infamously to carry England to qualify in the 2008 ...

Education as a Practice of Liberation

Introduction Paulo Freire is the ideologue who formulated and offered his vision and approach to modern education. In the essay, "The Concept of Banking Education”, Freire states that in the modern education system mechanical approach dominates, so he offers his own problem-posing educational method, which allows studying freely. Those, who truly seek after the liberation, should completely reject the "banking" concept of education, and instead embrace the concept of humans as thinking beings and consciousness, which is oriented to the world. This definition of Freire’s approach is "explicit". Such people should stop to consider the purpose of education " ...

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It was a unique time in history; slavery had been abolished, Jim Crow las were in effect but the civil rights movement had not yet begun. Voices like Langston Hughes spoke out against the racial oppression. Hughes himself wrote many short stories, poems and plays in his time. One of the themes that repeats itself in the works of Hughes is the word “mulatto”. “Mulatto”, a word used to describe a person of mixed black and white heritage, elicits a negative feeling or response from most people given the prejudiced nature of the word. Due to the negative nature ...