“You need to be educated so you can be this influence so you can help others. So you can go out and not be somebody’s quota. So you can go out and be able to stand and be who you are and also be a great influence.” (Vania, fall 2002) The greatest gift one can receive when graduating from College is not the degree (even though you will be excited) it is those times you set aside self for others. In this article Robin Wisniewski is conducting a research about transformation. Transformative College literacy was the title. She created a peer counselors group starting out with four people and expanded to fifteen. Two young women were the focus of her studies which was to see how the peer counselors would be transformed from just literate but a literate black woman. Lauryn and Vania were the two lucky peer counselors. Lauryn and Vania were totally different women, different backgrounds, different majors, and ideas. So this gave the reader two different perspectives. Peer counselors job is to help with what ever the student is struggling with or need more understanding. Wisniewski proposed the Pedagogy theory were the teacher is not only that but also the student you have to both be open. The two peer counselors talked about how they gave their students more help when they themselves involved their own personal life. These ladies realized that being a literate black women did not only mean being able to know and speak of what you know. It also means speaking what you know to others so in return they can speak of things you have not yet heard. By: Shaniqua Burton
April 5, 2010 7:17 PM
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ReplyDelete“You need to be educated so you can be this influence so you can help others. So you can go out and not be somebody’s quota. So you can go out and be able to stand and be who you are and also be a great influence.” (Vania, fall 2002) The greatest gift one can receive when graduating from College is not the degree (even though you will be excited) it is those times you set aside self for others. In this article Robin Wisniewski is conducting a research about transformation. Transformative College literacy was the title. She created a peer counselors group starting out with four people and expanded to fifteen. Two young women were the focus of her studies which was to see how the peer counselors would be transformed from just literate but a literate black woman. Lauryn and Vania were the two lucky peer counselors. Lauryn and Vania were totally different women, different backgrounds, different majors, and ideas. So this gave the reader two different perspectives. Peer counselors job is to help with what ever the student is struggling with or need more understanding. Wisniewski proposed the Pedagogy theory were the teacher is not only that but also the student you have to both be open. The two peer counselors talked about how they gave their students more help when they themselves involved their own personal life. These ladies realized that being a literate black women did not only mean being able to know and speak of what you know. It also means speaking what you know to others so in return they can speak of things you have not yet heard. By: Shaniqua Burton