Final presentation PART 1

Summarizing My Learning

Social Reproduction
(Ethnography)		Schools as Socializing Institutions
(Portraiture)		Educational Activism
(Historical Analysis)		Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
(Indigenous Research Methodologies)		Critical Pedagogy
(Philosophy)
During the Concepts of Educational Inquiry course, with Dr. Kristy Cooper Stein, I looked into five different areas of of study and methodological approaches to asking questions in the field of education. I learned that there are so many topics in education such as how teachers learn, how administrators learn, how children learn, etc. This course helped me understand some of the broad fields of educational inquiry.

Methodological Approaches

I learned details related to Ethnography. This is when a researcher goes and spends time with the people that he is doing the study on. I learned that Portraiture is an approach that examines the positive experiences and the complexities involved when people engage with one another in certain areas of their life. I found out that Historical Analysis involves research using historical documents and conduct interviews to identify what happened during a period of time. Also, Indigenous Research Methodologies which involves participants in a more genuine way. In which writing up the research happens with the research subjects. Philosophy is a field in which theoretical questions are posed for discussion.

Areas of Study

There were focal topics that went along with the different methodological approaches. The first was, Social Reproduction this is the idea that society reproduces itself generation after generation and education is a significant factor. Then there’s Schools as Socializing Institutions and how they shape individuals ideas and how they look at society. Next there’s Educational Activism, which is how people create change in education and how they fight for access to education. Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy is where the maintenance of the home culture is central to learning. Lastly, there is Critical Pedagogy which instigates action against systems that suppress or misrepresent the acquisition of knowledge.