Critical theory, critical culture, & postmodern humanism
From the Education Pages of The New York Times To Be Black at Stuyvesant High By FERNANDA SANTOS Published: February 25, 2012 Rudi-Ann Miller is one of 40 blacks among the 3,295 students at New York’s Stuyvesant High School. The Continue reading Excelling While Black
In a nutshell: Links to two interesting stories on education in Africa. See the end of this post for the latest updates on education in Africa. How do you fix education in Africa, where students have far fewer opportunities than Continue reading Tackling Education in Africa
In a nutshell: The flipped classroom purports to be the latest in student-centered learning, but I suspect it is really the latest in media software marketing. Read on… As far as I can determine, the so-called “flipped classroom” (also called Continue reading Really, flipped classroom!?!
In a nutshell: Young Mexican-American students in Tucson are under attack by right-wing, reactionary forces for trying to understand the matrix of oppression and privilege in which their lives are embedded. UPDATE: April 28, 2012 “When they see students asserting Continue reading Banned in Tucson: Critical Race Studies
In a nutshell: Might those modern goddesses of love, Pat Benatar and Bonnie Tyler, have a place alongside the Greek goddess Aphrodite in the classical mythology classroom? In the mythology classroom, we have a number of objectives. We want our Continue reading Teaching Mythology with Music Videos
In a nutshell: The musical number “A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down” from the film Mary Poppins helps students understand the Horatian principle of pleasure and didacticism in literature. We generally credit the Roman poet Horace (65-8 Continue reading The Mary Poppins Theory of Storytelling
In a nutshell: A daily low-stakes writing exercise is a good way to monitor attendance, incentivize students to keep up with the reading, and develop critical thinking skills all at the same time. From 2007-2009, I was a CUNY Writing Continue reading Give Us This Day Our Daily Write
In a nutshell: My attempt to introduce Bloom’s taxonomy and provide some pointers on how to use it to develop useful learning objectives. Introduction The issue of learning objectives connects with two other pedagogical issues that have become important in Continue reading Learning objectives
In a nutshell: Digital technologies offer exciting possibilities, but we need to use them responsibly, giving our students opportunities to practice all types of knowledge, not just the procedural knowledge that seems to predominate in play. Sipped my coffee this Continue reading Is gaming f-u-n-damental?
In a nutshell: I find it hard to believe that teacher education is the problem in public education today. UPDATE: Feb. 2, 2013 Two months after I posted this entry, Kevin Kumashiro published Bad Teacher!, taking aim at the current Continue reading Blaming teachers, again