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“One of the dangers we come across in our educational systems is the loss of a feeling of community, not just the loss of closeness among those with whom we work and with our students, but also the loss of a feeling of connection and closeness with the world beyond the classroom.”

The phrasal verb highlighted above means:

After reading the whole text, it is possible to conclude that the author considers herself:

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“My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is always a vocation rooted in hopefulness.”

The difference in meaning between “hope” and hopefulness in the excerpt above is that:

According to the author, some hard work must be done in order to achieve social justice through education.

This is the same as saying that:

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“We must highlight all the positive, life-transforming rewards that have been the outcome of collective efforts to change our society, especially education, so that it is not a site for the enactment of domination in any form.”

Without changing the meaning, it is correct to substitute the conjunction so that in the clause above for:

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“In recent years, mass media have told the public that feminist movement did not work, that affirmative action was a mistake, that combined with cultural studies all alternative programs and departments are failing to educate students. To counter these public narratives, it is vital that we challenge all this misinformation.”

Which public narratives and misinformation does the author refer to?

Read this excerpt from one of the previous texts:

“We must highlight all the positive, life-transforming rewards that have been the outcome of collective efforts to change our society, especially education, so that it is not a site for the enactment of domination in any form.

” Without changing the meaning of the sentences, it is correct to substitute the modal must in the beginning of the sentence for:

Read this excerpt from one of the previous texts:

“In recent years, educators who have dared to study and learn new ways of thinking and teaching so that the work we do does not reinforce systems of domination, of imperialism, racism, sexism or class elitism have created a pedagogy of hope.”

Focusing on reported speech, choose the best alternative to rephrase the citation above.

In the text you above (see QUESTÃO 41), the author cites Paulo Freire and Mary Grey.

She does so in order to:

Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

Paulo Freire contends: “Whatever the perspective through which we appreciate authentic educational practice—its process implies hope.”

As teachers we believe that learning is possible, that nothing can keep an open mind from seeking after knowledge and finding a way to know. In The Outrageous Pursuit of Hope: Prophetic Dreams for the Twenty-First Century Mary Grey reminds us that we live by hope. She declares: “Hope stretches the limits of what is possible. It is linked with that basic trust in life without which we could not get from one day to the next . . . To live by hope is to believe that it is worth taking the next step: that our actions, our families, and cultures and society have meaning, are worth living and dying for. Living in hope says to us, ‘There is a way out,’ even from the most dangerous and desperate situations . . .”

One of the dangers we come across in our educational systems is the loss of a feeling of community, not just the loss of closeness among those with whom we work and with our students, but also the loss of a feeling of connection and closeness with the world beyond the classroom. Progressive education, education as the practice of freedom, enables us to confront feelings of loss and restore our sense of connection. It teaches us how to create community so as to achieve social justice.

Adapted from hooks, b. Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope. London/New York: Routledge, 2003.

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