Archive for September, 2006

Indoctrination anybody?

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Greetings,
It has been a busy day for me today.  Here is another Q-and-A session.
Classmate C asks:
“Here’s a question….should we indoctrinate our students or not? How do you make sense of this question?”
From my understanding, I believe that indoctrination of a student would be “pounding of a certain belief or set of beliefs into their head” (for lack [...]

What is the purpose?

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Greetings,
As with the last post, this is a question posed by a classmate, in which I responded to on the message board that our class has set up. I believe posting these Q-and-A sessions on this medium will shed some light on my psyche and might, if this is done properly, show how I have [...]

Answering a classmate’s Question

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Greetings,
In my current class, this question came up on our online message board. I have cleaned up my response a little bit, and added hard breaks where they didn’t show up in my actual response.
Classmate A asked:
“This is something I wanted to bring up in class in relation to the readings but, since we are [...]

Stanley Comment

Monday, September 18th, 2006

Greetings,
As I was reading an article by William Stanley, I was struck with the memories of a conversation that occurred in TE 407.  Stanley, in his article, outlines the historical significance and the major differences between what Stanley believes to be the three major schools of though that exist in the school system today, one [...]

The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers and Teaching in the Movies

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Greetings,
Today for class we read a selection from Dalton’s The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers and Teaching in the movies.  In this, I thought it was most telling when Dalton was discussing the teacher as an outsider.  This idea that a lone teacher, rebelling against the system and refusing to adhere to the status quo.  From the [...]