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A 5 page paper that provides an overview of Zaragoza's book. This paper supports the premises created by Zaragoza in applying her educational philosophy to classroom constructs. Bibliography lists no additional sources.
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focuses on the learner and on processes that support the learners individual learning style. Zaragoza begins with the following description of her own text: "This methods text
is grounded in critical theory and works toward lessening the familiar plea "Tell me what to do" and broadening your views of yourself as educators" (Zaragoza, 1997, p. 3).
She suggests that elemental to every segment of her book is the necessity and importance of personal education philosophy. "What we believed and dont believe will have a major
influence on all we do, say, dont do and dont say with our students."(Zaragoza, 1997, p. 7). Zaragoza begins by demonstrating a number of ways in which university education can
assist individuals in forming their own personal philosophies of education, including the use of reflective dialogue journals and asking education students to ask themselves important questions about what they think
about children and what they believe about education (Zaragoza, 1997). In general, Zaragoza outlines some faulty ways of thinking about education: the deficit view, perfectionism, sarcasm and power/control.
The deficit view is prevalent in many public education scenarios because children are commonly labeled in terms of their learning capacity. Zaragoza contends that teachers must recognize the
strengths and power of all children, rather than the weaknesses (Zaragoza, 1997) Perfectionism is an issue because it distances the learner and puts more of the active participation in the
hands of the teacher (Zaragoza, 1997). When a teacher is a perfectionist, for example, the teacher will do more of an activity to be sure that it is done
correctly. Sarcasm, Zaragoza contends, it damaging to a students self-esteem and to the interactive nature of the relationship between teacher and student. "Sarcasm also offends me because
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