Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Melissa Chan
Honors 232C
2 May 2014
Reading Review 2
than the top-down approach we have focused on thus far, I feel our
bottom-up approach.
maintain and increase their privilege (Cahill, 996). There exists this
paradox where the privileged want to and attempt to help the poor and
oppressed through charity work and social programs, etc., but are
put it, When I give food to the poor they call me a saint. When I ask
why the poor have no food they call me a communist (Stephens, 998).
Both PAR and ethnography seem to have been formed to combat this
upon them the label of homeless and the negative connotations and
depoliticized and ignored (Sparks, 849). This also raises the PAR
questions, moving from one student to the next as needed. But the
actual social change only occurs if I can help bridge the gap and
why they are learning what they are learning. But that is where an
graduated from American universities, I feel like I do not have the right
sympathize with their situations and teach off that, but not being able
Works Cited
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