How Is A White Professor Utilized The Process Approach

Newly learning that not all teachers operating with a liberal lens are doing what is best for low socioeconomic students is something that resonated with me. Research by Delpit (2006) goes on to describe how a White professor utilized the process approach. The approach meant students worked together in pairs and critiqued each other's work. From an outsider's perspective, this was the future of learning and acceptable. Collaboration is something I lacked during my years of primary and secondary school. In the literature, a student’s feedback shared how underwhelming the process method was for their learning. The student states “... we were there to learn from her.” referring to the teacher. The student statement establishes how process learning

Delpit (2006) and Darder (2012) improved my understanding by expressing these concepts through the lens of a classroom teacher. Delpit (2006) takes the culture of power one step further. The idea that those holding the code of power subconsciously become dismissive of those that potentially will not uphold the code is profound. What came to mind was interacting with teachers who sought student recommendations from me. After providing them a potential high quality candidate, I learn that they have implicitly excluded the highly-qualified student from an opportunity. This behavior confirms Delpit’s (2006) culture of power

I disagree with this conclusion. I have had the opportunity to work with students of various backgrounds and I have found that a balance of fluency and skills coupled with a pedagogy focused on explicit political awareness paired with love and care is what is most successful. The underlying reference that Darder (2012) did not make is the importance of having a teacher explicitly show love and care for their students’ successes while also providing proper scaffolding for students at various developmental