Understanding Curriculum in Context because of the discussion of context of curriculum versus life education. Commitment to Professional Growth because I relate my experiences as a student to how it will effect my teaching. In exploring my beliefs, it enabled me to introspectively examine why and how I teach. I've discovered my desire to teach is rooted in very positive past experiences and the desire to share the same experiences with students in the teaching capacity. Learning is an active process in which students and teachers each participate.
Education also reaches beyond the mind, to educate the whole person.
This analysis of Disney s Mulan focuses on how different experiences can define the individual as a social being, how place affects knowledge production, how power defines identity and possibility, what the pedagogical content is and how the movie takes on the issues of race, class, gender, culture and age.