Blog 5 - Finn, Literacy with an Attitude

Finn aims on how teachers teach and how education can be tailored according to children's social class, framing his argument for teaching powerful literacy to poor, working-class children as a matter of justice. Meanwhile powerful literacy is the education our children deserve and prepares young people to consider multiple perspectives and their own interests as they make life decisions. 

Finn exposed that poor, working-class students received functional literacy that taught compliance, while students from privileged backgrounds were taught powerful literacy that promoted independence and leadership. The aims and means of education were distinct, separate and unequal, dispensed according to one’s social class.

When Finn reflects on teaching methods of control it reminds me of my full education in Brazil that was explicitly authoritarian teaching style with teachers having very strong control and less student involvement.

Point to share in class: Teaching methods of control, I still see it happening. The cycle has been active since the 70s.   



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