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Relevance in South African context

Yes! Learners need to embrace diversity and accept one another. They will learn better, if the learning content is directly linked to their own lives and experiences.

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Relevance in South African Context

Yes! Learners need to be encouraged to think for themselves and to not be afraid to show they are.

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Examples of how Miss Gruwell motivates and involves learners

1. She first starts to get through to the learners when she confiscates the caricature of Jamal.
2. She starts to relate everything she teaches to the learners' personal experiences.
3. She starts this by asking the learners questions and making them on the line if they say yes. This shows them how similar they actually are.
4. She gives the learners real books with stories they can relate to encouraging them to actually read.
5. She gives the learners journals to write down their experiences but leaves them their freedom in deciding whether she reads them or not.
6. She makes things interesting for them by taking them to museums and inviting guest speakers.
7. When the learners show initiative to invite the lady who sheltered Anne Frank, she does not shut them down but rather works with them to make it possible.
8. She fights for the learners and shows them that she cares by trying to be allowed to teach them for two more years until their high school graduation.

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Examples of how Mr Keating embodies transcendentalism

1. He makes the learners rip out the introductory pages to their poetry textbook because he does not agree with it.
2. He encourages the learners to call him "Oh Captain my Captain" rather than Mr Keating.
3. He encourages learners to follow "Carpe Diem" (seize the day).
4. He encourages learners to look at things from a different perspective by standing on the desk.
5. He encourages learners to be their own individual selves by walking around the courtyard in any way they want irregardless of the other learners.

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Mr Keating applies the transcendentalism philosophy
> some major principles: "freethinking, self-reliance and non-conformity" (Sugg, s.a.)

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Erin Gruwell developed the Freedom Writer Method
> makes learners interested in their own education
> promotes values, confidence and diversity
> learner-centred method based on "internal motivation" (Zulfian, Sahril, Omolu, 2018:28)

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