Category: module three
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Context for video
To respond to the content of this course, I have chosen a video. I am so delighted that there was an opportunity to respond to the content of this course in an artistic way. I have been so impressed with the style of teaching and learning in this course. I think it is a better…
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just answer the questions
What constitutes a knowledge system (KS)—the attributes and characteristics? I can not do this in a timely manner – the idea needs to circulate around my head for a bit to understand it. Right now, I am putting it through a lens of libertarianism, which is a worry! that idea of individual responsibility. the assumptions…
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reading a string of long words…
(on Against school: an epistemological critique) Including french….. ‘essence and raison d’être of the school is, in fact, normalisation’, …..In other words, the school, and education as currently conceived and represented by the school, as a site of equity, is a lost cause. It’s interesting to read this while studying at school, in this instance,…
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Sidetracked
Yet also not sidetracked This book (Frankel 2018) It fits in with the first part of the course. It is challenging us to look at the way we see children. Universal child vs Individual child – All children are the same. Whether we see children as individual people, rather than a general child.. The Future…
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answer the questions, two…
My kid is unschooled… I let her choose her direction of learning. Then, I have to justify this to all the other people in her life. I have been writing a blog on my child’s learning JOURNEY (vomit) in the hope that others see how good homeschooling is and how my kid is still becoming…
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answering the questions (one)
When you are working with your students in class, what do you feel about the source of power that is legitimating what you are doing? I hated it so much that I no longer teach in a classroom. People are kidding themselves if they think they do not do the work of the government. Egg…
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week 8
yay I started my journey to democratic education by reading a book that I unfortunately can not remember the name of, I didn’t realise its impact at the time. I was told by an observing lecturer that I didn’t understand the role of the teacher. I just think of it differently. I do not want…
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note on Interpellation
Is this the name for the reason I hate “we are learning to..” or WALT. I think it tells a child that whatever they get out of any activity isn’t as important as what the teacher wants them to get out of an activity… I don’t want a child to think that. With the example…
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about teaching and learning
I was doing two courses concurrently with my Masters. One is this Transforming Education, the other on conducting research. Given that I am only doing Masters to do some necessary research, I have to do the research paper. I have found it necessary to withdraw from the research paper this semester as the cognative dissonance was…