Critical Pedagogy Manifestoes
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Introduction: Manifesting Change
Teaching, learning, and educational institutions are frequently regarded as neutral and objective entities. However, they are deeply embedded within broader sociopolitical and cultural frameworks that challenge this perception.
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Niklas Zabe: Decry Mastery
Regretfully, I struggle to imagine an education outside of schools. I struggle even harder to imagine an education outside school-like formats and settings.
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Anonymous: Contemplating Education
Teaching, learning, and educational institutions are frequently regarded as neutral and objective entities. However, they are deeply embedded within broader sociopolitical and cultural frameworks that challenge this perception.
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Anonymous: Untitled
Originally, I had parts in this manifesto where I shared. I shared some of my shame, some of my traumas, and some of the things I still feel guilty about when it comes to the sensitive and hard-to navigate topics of appropriation, empowerment, and the ever-changing field of intersectional activism.
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Nathalie Rennhack: The Student Is Not Just a Victim
Throughout my studies, I rarely experienced university settings that actually function as collectives. The prevailing structuring of classroom settings widely restricts this, but so do the participants within the system.
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Lisa Born: A Native American Pedagogical Approach
Among the most important concepts that teacher trainees are taught are the functions of schools, how these functions are fulfilled by the school-internal structure, and detailed methods to use in their own lessons.
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Christine Poljanskij: Teaching Hope
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, hope is a verb meaning “to cherish a desire with anticipation: to want something to happen or be true” and also a noun, which means: “desire accompanied by expectation of or belief in fulfillment” (“Hope”).
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AI Poetry
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Words from Wires: When AI Writes Poetry
A stove that cooks you breakfast all on its own, a robot lighting a cigar, mechanic mice cleaning the rugs, and bathtubs filling themselves. When Ray Bradbury published “There Will Come Soft Rains” in 1950, he might have been pessimistic about humanity’s future ability to prevent the world from going up in flames in the face of technological advancement and the looming threat of atomic war.
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Prompt 1: Apology
Farah Salaheddin: The Mechanics of an Apology
Copilot: A Whispered Regret
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Prompt 2: Boredom
Nientke Peters: I’m Bored
Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental: Static Bloom
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Prompt 3: Childhood Memory
Niklas Zabe: Adult Contemporary
Copilot: The Enchanted Garden
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Prompt 4: Forgotten Object
Lola Dekhuijzen: we keep forgetting
ChatGPT: Eclipsed in Dust
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Prompt 5: Fruits
Annabel Grothstück: The Sweet Nectar of Release
ChatGPT: Rebellion of the Fruit
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Prompt 6: Landscape
Philipp Kemeter: honey
ChatGPT: The Landscape Wakes
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Prompt 7: Mirror
Seren Brockway: This Leaf Looks Like Me
Gemini: Reflected Truth
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Prompt 8: Spirituality
Aenne Dirks: Tale of 2 Gods
Gemini: The Inner Light
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Prompt 9: Technology
Evke Dirks: The God of Technology
Copilot: The Digital Tapestry
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Poets of Flesh, Poets of Data, and Where to Go from Here: A Critical Reflection
Apples, a dying ladybug, static, apologies that turn into weapons, and a hopping man in a suit. A poem about rolling meatballs, or the simple worries of a university student. This, and much more, is what we find in the human-written poems of this Open Section on AI Poetry.
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