Becoming a knowledge facilitator not a teacher? Is this a question to be posing ourselves?
The varied and rich sources created by different contributing writers of SoN (Shade of Noir) is rich, enticing and fantastic source to be read as educators and being introduced to student community. According to Freire (2006) which condemns the banking system of teaching, we should stop to consider teachers and educators as true depository of education and more so engage in more of a democratise and co-creational approach to which we share, review and re-educate ourselves. As educators we should forget our central role to dictate and lead the flow of ideals and conversation but try to mediate and facilitate a rich learning experience trough more field trips, reflective writing, various background guest speakers and peer to peer conversation. Help them to create their own content without the bias of reading only certain restrictive resources. Redefine the boundary of knowledge in a classical way perhaps. For that matter we need to see our students as co-creators of our learning journey than passive agents. We must consider the role of identity in shaping our learning journey and let their and our identities be central part of very own learning journey. By adopting our positionality as teachers and students we can engage in far deeper conversation.
perhaps by sharing resources like SoN through student reflective journeys through their identities, interesting case studies we will build upon mutual understanding and share more . Perhaps by having more open discussions that might create even wider and deeper conversation. I think SoN is a step in right direction by teaching us how to reflect on our own and students journey.
Sharing such resources will also open the eyes of other students from all ethnicity to reflect and think of inequality we face in society and perhaps how we can address it?