Toward a Kiva for the Classroom [microform] / William Weiss
- Bib ID:
- 5599635
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- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Weiss, William
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- [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1996
- 68 p.
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If students are treated like the fully human beings that they are and facilitate a process wherein they come to realize themselves as integral and empowered members of a living community, then no matter what is being taught, students will respond positively. A composition instructor serving at-risk urban youth in inner-urban Oakland and San Francisco (California) combines Paulo Freire's pedagogy to teach and empower, a "kiva" model for the classroom, and "an attitude." A kiva, in Native American society, is a circular holy place where the young are initiated by elders into the mysteries. The kiva is a way to structurally integrate the idea of community across culture and across time into the very form of the classroom itself. Students in various classes decided the direction the classes would take and created their own canons of primary and secondary sources. The instructor first used a kiva with high school age students to reinforce the autonomy, empowerment, and critical thinking achieved using Freirian pedagogy. The instructor also used the kiva model to teach composition and contemporary social issues during a 5-week summer session at the National Hispanic University. The kiva model was also used at the San Francisco Conservation Corps, a nationwide work-learn program for at-risk urban youth between the ages of 18 and 23. The students decided on the physical arrangement of the room, and that the reading list would incorporate shorter works of all kinds gathered by the students themselves. (Contains 19 references.) (RS)
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (47th, Milwaukee, WI, March 27-30, 1996).
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