The Association of Teacher

Educators

Annual Meeting

February 13-17, 2015

ADVOCATING FOR THE SILENCED:

THE EDUCATORS’ VOCATION

Hyatt Regency Phoenix

The Ebb and Flow of the Big Ideas

of Pedagogy: How these Big Ideas

Can Give Voice to the Silenced

Joan Wink, Ph.D.

CSUS Professor Emeritawww.JoanWink.com

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IDEA Generator

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Ella Baker

I am saying as you must say,

too, that in order to see where

we are going, we not only must

remember where we have

been, but we must understand

where we have been.

Why do we do

what we do?

Cummins, J. (2009) Transformative multiliteracies pedagogy: School-based strategies for closing

the achievement gap. Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 11(2), 38-56.

Used with permission, Wink, J. (2011).

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Cummins, J. (2009) Transformative multiliteracies pedagogy: School-based strategies for closing the

achievement gap. Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 11(2), 38-56. Used

with permission, Wink, J. (2011) p. 190.

Scaffold

Meaning

Extend

Language

Activate Prior

Knowledge /

Build

Background

Knowledge

Affirm

Identity

Literacy

Engagement↨↨↨↨Literacy

Achievement

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affirm identity extend language activate prior

knowledge

scaffold meaning

A Mosaic

South Dakota

Pennsylvania

Wyoming

Arizona

Texas

California

South Dakota

wife

mother

grammie

cancer survivor

eduholic

professor emerita

rancher

retiree

From Joanie Richardson

(Billy’s girl)

to Mrs. Wink

to Mommy

to Ms. Winkie

to Dr. Wink

to Joanie

to Dean’s wife

to “the missus”

Circa 1960

• Selma to Ruby Bridges to Rosa

Parks

• Connections to Native

Americans on SD prairies

Rosa Parks

“I had been pushed as far as I could stand.”

Ruby Bridges, 1960

1960 in New Orleans

Painting by Norman Rockwell

www.joanwink.com/scheditems/redwoods.pdf

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Circa 1960 continues

Mrs. Johnson

Dr. Ehrensberger

Miss Burgi and Mrs. Hlavak

So, what did I learn in my first

year of teaching?(a.k.a., Mrs. Wink)

• Teachers who teach in glass

houses should not throw stones.

• Never say never.

So, what Big Idea

did I learn in the 60s?

Pedagogical Principle

#1

Vygotsky was right.

(a.k.a., JoanieRichardson)

• Our sociocultural context

really does matter.

On to the 1970s

(a.k.a., mommie)

• Parenting

• In an evil state far, far away: Pivotal

Personal and Professional

Experience

http://www.joanwink.com/critical-pedagogy-4th-edition/critical-pedagogy-4th-ed-pivotal-

experiences/

Wink, J. (2011, pp. 2–4). Critical pedagogy: Notes from the real world. Upper Saddle River, NJ:

Pearson Education.

So, What Did I Learn

in the 70s?

Pedagogical Principle

#2

Silence is bad.

On to the 1980s –

(a.k.a., Miss Winkie)

The Benson Kids

U of A

Profe Beto

Wink, J. (2010). Critical Pedagogy: Notes from the real world (4th ed.), pp.

33–40. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.

Conversation is the

laboratory and workshop

of the student.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Two Perspectives

I came from a tradition…

• Teacher-centered

• Memory

• Skills-based

• Tests

• Extrinsic rewards

• One right answer

But I was living …

• Student-centered

• Meaning

• Comprehension-based

• Portfolio

• Intrinsic rewards

• Multiple perspectives

By the end of the 80s,

I could say…

• Cognitivism

• Interactivism

• Constructivism

• Constructivist

• Constructionism

• Social constructionsim

• Dialectical Learning

• Critical Pedagogy

Education Research The Official Theory The Classical Theory The Official Theory The Classical Theory

Traditional Progressive Numbers Words

Teacher-centered Student-centered Objective Perspective Memory Meaning Reason Insight

Value-Free Value-Bound Cause/Effect Emergent Design Hypothesis Testing Hypothesis Generating

Assessment Literacy The Official Theory The Classical Theory The Official Theory The Classical Theory

What a Student Can’t Do What a Student Can Do Memory Meaning

Grade Showing Decode Comprehend Single Correct Answer Multiple Correct Answers Scripted Constructing

Timed Unlimited Time Replicable Contextualized At End of Unit Continual Levelized Instruction Differentiated

world views

Pedagogical Principle

#3

Noise is good.

So what was the Big

Idea I learned

in the 80s?

On to the 90s

The Vygotskian Metaphor

for Water

Retrieved from www.joanwink.com/scheditems/EEE-Whats_Love_TESOL_2010.pdf

1990s

• Out with Freire; in with

phonemes

• Mandated minutia

• Rigor and joy

• Patience and courage

Pedagogical Principles

• Meaningful

• Purposeful

• Relevant

• Respectful

These principles are taken from the work of Ken and Yetta Goodman of the University

of Arizona.

Literacy Transfers

Energy Technology (credit)

Love trumps

methods.

1991

• Revisiting an evil state far, far

away…

• Gender-quake

Robert Frost was Right

Two roads diverged in a yellow

wood, and sorry I could not

travel both.

Two roads diverged in a wood,

and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all

the difference.

At rare intervals, the most

significant factors in

determining the future occur

in infinitesimal quantities on

unique occasions.

(L. Mumford, The Transformation of Man, 1956)

Nested Pedagogical

Orientations

Movements

have moments.

Pedagogical Principle

#4

Words have

power.

On to the 2000s

and beyond

Charles Dickens

• These are the best of times.

• These are the worst of times.

• Simultaneous and contradictory

ideas

The Power

of the Narrative

The human brain favors stories or the

narrative form as a primary means of

organizing and relating human

experience. Stories contain large

amounts of valuable information even

when the storyteller forgets or invents

new details.

~Silko, The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir

Pedagogical Principle

#5

Stories matter.

Human relations are at the

heart of schooling.

Cummins, 2001, as cited in Wink, 2011, p 90.

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So, how many

Pedagogical Principles?

• Vygotsky was right: Context

• Silence is bad.

• Noise is good.

• Words have power.

• Stories matter.

Stick together.

Education is radically about

love.~ Paulo Freire

Personal communication, N. Millich, November 3, 1998; cited in Wink,

2005, p. 2

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5 Big Ideas

• Vygotsky was right.

• Silence is bad.

• Noise is good.

• Words have power.

• Stories matter.

What Can We Do?

Fewer tests – more learning

Cite the constitution

Less blame – more support

Let’s not rip the heart out of one

more child who feels defeated

by a test

Affirm Identity – Voice to the Silenced

Be the Dream Keepers.Be the Dream Keepers.

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