The 15 - member panel, led by Lester Lyles, a retired Air Force general who was on the short list of potential NASA chiefs, argues that the Administration must take a
broader view so that «a disciplined space program can serve larger
national imperatives.»
I won't summarize here the
imperatives and practices of critical pedagogy, or popular education, except to say that these approaches build from the experiences of students, and employ languages that help students interrogate the transparency of their own experiences, that is, languages that enable students to challenge the interpretation of their experiences and that assist students in connecting their own experiences and histories to
broader situations that are local, regional,
national and global in scope.