Final Paper

Since we have gotten a little off schedule and no one else has posted yet, I am not sure if we are still supposed to blog about our final paper topics tonight. Additionally, the final paper topic options have not been made available to us yet, but I am planning to write about the idea I last blogged about, discussing functional literacy and the contemporary focus in US schools on drilling kids on reading skills in relationship to more Freireian ideas about educating for social justice and specific quotes and ideas perpetuated from the Bush administration, for ex. Karl Rove saying openly that there can be too much of a good thing, since people of a certain level of education begin to vote democractically, in addition to contrasting Bush II's approach to "hearts and minds" with that of Myles Horton--the former aiming to change people's hearts, the latter respecting people's hearts and finding them to be in the right place, and moving their formation (education) from that point of understanding. And things. :D