The Classroom Position

4- In classrooms, you are asked to assume positions that are not just intellectual but also pyshical and spatial, even discursive (in the sense that the classrooms position when and how you speak and write). How do classrooms position you? How would you like to position yourself?

In the classroom one can take on many different roles as a student. You can be passive rarely participate in classroom discussions. You can be active and have an opinion about everything said. You can be goofy and not really pay attention. There are many more roles of a student in a classroom than I am stating. A teacher expects a student to be flexible and able to look at situations from a lot of point-of-views. When I am in the classrooms I feel as if they position me as if I already know what they feel I should have been taught. The classrooms are very diverse so some students have knowlegde of certain things, whereas other student were not expose to that certain information. Some classrooms position me as if I am the student and I cannot know any of what they know. I guess everything actually depends on the teacher of the classroom. I would like to position myself in classrooms to be given all the information the teachers believes will be valuable in my education process. I want to put myself into a recieving position where I am open to everything; but I can distinguish what is right and wrong or what information will benefit me.