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This is a 6 page paper that provides an overview of social pedagogy through the lens of protest. An illumination of the inherent capitalist values in contemporary pedagogy is carried out. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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is maximized. However, this ubiquity of education as an institution in the west raises serious concerns about the content and methodology of pedagogy. As educational organizations compete for sponsorship and
funding, there is an increasing trend towards the removal of political and social content from education in favor of a more "objective" approach to subject matter. Unfortunately, such an approach
is inherently repressive as it emphasizes the unilateral authority of the educator and undermines the students participation in the learning process, making education something that is received rather than something
that is participated in. As such, a growing trend in social pedagogy is to respond to this by emphasizing the political and social content of education in order to instill
the educated with a better sense of the society in which they live and, most importantly, the capacity of education to not just reinforce, but sometimes to meaningfully critique and
improve that society. A powerful example of the impact of this trending in social pedagogy can be seen in the rise of protest consciousness throughout the latest generation. For
instance, in 2007, thousands of students demonstrated in Germany against the assembly of the G8 counsel of the worlds wealthiest capitalist leaders. The protests were largely in response to what
was seen as the inherently offensive nature of an assembly of the worlds wealthiest leaders to discuss economic policy at a time when social services are chronically underfunded across the
world. One student was quoted as saying that he supported the protests against the G8 assembly because the leaders of the G8 nations "actually use citizens of the world and
the environment of the world as their playground to achieve more money and power". The social justice characterization of these protests is a testament to the impact of socially oriented
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