Teachers as Agents of Social Change
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s a teacher educator and a public high school teacher, we try to avoid being overwhelmed by pessimism during debates over school reform.... School has, thus, become a social necessity for providing special learning.... He argued that, "If we do not prepare children to become good citizen.... Freire (1970; 1995) shared Dewey's desire to stimulate students to become "agents of curiosity" in a "quest for.... The role of the teacher includes asking questions that help students identify problems facing their community (problem posing), working with students to discover ideas or create symbols (representations) that explain their life experiences (codification), and encouraging analysis of prior experiences and of society as the basis for new academic understanding and social action (conscientization) (Shor, 1987)....