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After reading the Labaree article, my overriding questions is, “Why can’t we have all three goals?” For those of you who do not know, Labaree states that we do not really need another study on what works best in the classroom or a discussion on if we need to have a national curriculum until we [...]
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In reading our Burbules article for this week, I would have to say that it was impressive in its analysis over these two concepts, although I have to admit that my formal education in this area has been lacking.
As many of you who have read my other articles may know, I think that a major [...]
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I like how Ornstein leaves the philosophical question implied in her work open-ended. The entire time I was reading this work, I was asking myself, ‘How does this philosophy or theory apply to me?’ and ‘Do I fall into this category?’ By the end of the two sections, philosophy and theory, I was growing slightly [...]
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In our reading today of McNeil (166-170), he comments that defensive teachers in fields such as social studies rely on lists to convey information instead of attempting to interrelate the information. He then identifies the example of the labor-union movement in America. He claims that most teachers would identify major ideas, tools, and people and [...]
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As I was reading our assigned selection for this week, I was amazed by the amount of time we, as teachers, had, but also by the lack of time we have. On page 147, a chart describes how much time teachers have to begin with, but after clerical endeavors and behavior corrections, teachers have a [...]
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While reading Brophy’s chapter on “Socializing uninterested or alienated students,” I came across an interesting quote on page 314. “Schooling does not aim to provide satisfaction of what is desired by students but instead to cultivate in them what the cultures construes as desirable.” I thought this was particularly interesting as I have thought this [...]
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As I was reading the Brophy selection for this week, I was struck by the quotation at the beginning. Overall I agree with every aspect of the quote, but I wonder about what exactly it implies for the future.
Initially, the quote divides the students into two groups, tortoises and hares, and states that it would [...]
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As I was reading this week’s selection from Brophy’s book about supporting students’ confidence, I became slightly confused about the differences between “Internal focus of control,” and “Concept of self as origin rather than pawn” (58).
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As I was reading the article “A First Look at the Literacy of America’s Adults in the 21st Century,” I stopped at one of the charts and took a closer look. It was Table 7: Average prose, document and quantitative literacy scores of adults, by educational attainment: 1992 and 2003. I was very much surprised [...]
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As I was reading today, I noted that a gentleman by the name of E.D. Hirsch, Jr. was quoted from his book Cultural Literacy: What every American should know (1987). In this book he argues that there is a list of things that students must know before they can become useful and functioning members [...]
