All new teachers have two choices:
Devolution or evolution. The Pedagogy of Emancipation
and Transformation is the evolutionary Road, "the
road not taken" too often by too many. It is
a difficult pathway, which includes the positive
pedagogies outlined above. Teachers who follow the
evolutionary pathway create a new and total pedagogy:
A Pedagogy of the Human Spirit: Taking themselves
and their students into a land of awe and wonder,
where the magical lives, the mystical stirs the
heart, the spirit flies, and all mankind advances.
Emancipation and transformation starts within each
new teacher, creates a ripple effect which emancipates
their students and transforms their lives, and gives
a new birth of freedom to the hearts, minds, and
spirits of the whole world. The Pedagogy of Emancipation
and Transformation together lead to the Pedagogy
of the Human Spirit-which can be best summed up
in the final words of Dr. Martin Luther King at
the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, "The words of
a old Negro spiritual: I'm free at last, I'm free
at last. Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last"
(King, 1963).
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