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Vanessa Vaile

Dr.Henry A. Giroux-Online Articles - 0 views

  • critical pedagogy
  • teaching for critical thinking, dialogical pedagogy, or critical literacy
  • frequently appropriated by academics, adult educators, and others who inhabit the ideology of the West in ways that often reduce it to a pedagogical technique or method
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  • often contradict the use of Freire's work as a revolutionary pedagogical practice
  • profound and radical nature of its theory and practice as an anti-colonial and postcolonial discourse
  • how a politics of location works in the interest of privilege and power
  • Paulo Freire's work must be read as a postcolonial text and that North Americans, in particular, must engage in a radical form of border crossing in order to reconstruct Freire's work in the specificity of its historical and political construction
  • politics of location situated in the privilege and power of the West
  • becoming a border crosser engaged in a productive dialogue with others means producing a space in which those dominant social relations, ideologies, and practices that erase the specificity of the voice of the other must be challenged and overcome.
  • Homelessness and the Border Intellectual
Chris Jobling

Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 0 views

  • “Experience has long been considered the best teacher of knowledge. Since we cannot experience everything, other people’s experiences, and hence other people, become the surrogate for knowledge. ‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ is an axiom for collecting knowledge through collecting people (undated).”
  • Meaning-making and forming connections between specialized communities are important activities.
  • Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories. Learning is a process that occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements – not entirely under the control of the individual. Learning (defined as actionable knowledge) can reside outside of ourselves (within an organization or a database), is focused on connecting specialized information sets, and the connections that enable us to learn more are more important than our current state of knowing.
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    George Siemens, International Journal of Instruction Technology and Distance Learning, January 2005.
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    Connectivism is a theory. As a scientist I'd be looking for experimental results that demonstrate that the theory is true. Have any such experiments been devised? Is so what were the results,. If not, why not?
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