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An article on Turkish National Eduactional Ideology

thank you for sharing this source

Bilge, thank you for the post. It was an interesting topic. I will consider to have the book. In Turkey, after military coup on September the 12th in 1980, the military government introduced some important changes about religious education. Before military government period, schools had offered Religion Lesson as elective and Moral Knowledge Lesson as compulsory. The military government combined the two lessons and decided to be taught in primary and secondary schools compulsorily. However, as it is mentioned in the article, this decision leaded to an Islamization of our education. In my opinion, religious education is important. However, instead of emphasizing only one religion, students should be made aware of other religions and cultures and be tolerant to all of them. They should be thought that having a different religion is not a dangerous phenomenon. Such thoughts have been more and more important after 11th September attack to World Trade Center in the USA.

You will find all authors and their related work that criticizes MI theory. One notable and recent critique that Turkish academicians made: DECIPHERING THE THEORY OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES: AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE http://www.ijbssnet.com/journals/Vol._2_No._11_[Special_Issue-June_2011]/32.pdf

Agreed! But I posted this for us to see and be aware of some people in Turkish Education. Thanks for your time and comment.

For the first time I see that a scientific theory is tried to be challenged by a divine source rather than a scientific source. In my opinion, scientific debates should rely on scientific data and reasoning. Since divine sources describe an eternal truth, such sources make scientific debates and progress meaningless. In that sense, I think that this article's applicability and validity is open to discussion. Thank you Dinçer, it was one of the most interesting articles that I have run across so far.

As we mentioned about the foundations of theories, I have read an article about behaviorism and I want to share with you. This article is especially for Bilge.:)

:((( I couldn't open it

Dear Canan, I uploaded pdf format on moddle under the title of reading reflection part of Behaviorism week. You can dowload from there. Have a good reading.. :)

Interesting results on attendance. Now you have the research to backup your claims on attendance. What do you think?

Constructivist teacher and her behaviors accordingly are presented in the article.

Sharing this because we talked about the impact of Sputnik in the history of education research.

This article was written by Merill. You can find extra information about this model which there is limited information on synthesis article.

This article describes instructional theory that supports post-industrial education and training systems - ones that are customized and learner-centered, in which student progress is based on learning rather than time. The article describes universal methods of instruction, situational methods, core ideas of the post-industrial paradigm of instruction, the importance of and problems with task-based instruction, a vision of an instructional theory for post-industrial education and training, and the roles that may be played by the teacher, the learner, and technology in the new paradigm. Keywords: Instructional theory, post-industrial paradigm, task-basd instruction

Is this Reigeluth's recent publication? I plan to include this in the reading list for next year. Thanks for sharing.

I saw the news on Kursat Hoca's FB profile. It is published in Magazine about Distance Education (Revista de Educación a Distancia). I like the idea of learning without time constraints. I don't know why :)

Think about the question!

A friend of mine has been in Finland as a teacher. I will share the anecdote she told us. While she was in her first weeks, she gave homework since it is holiday tomorrow, I think she exaggerated the giving homework. Classroom teacher came near to her and said Seçil, what are you doing? Tomorrow is holiday, they need to rest. That's why I am very interested in.

Sinem, thanks for sharing. This is also another related article on Finnish Educational system http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/46581035.pdf

Another video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwD1v73O4VI

Bilge, thank you for the post. That was nice to read. However, I wonder if there were no ideas about how to make classrooms have fun or what is "student centered" instruction. The article says, "Öğretmenler önce birbirleriyle iletişim kurmayı, köşe kapmacadan afiş hazırlamaya kadar pek çok etkinlikle öğrenmenin aşamalarını, çocukların özelliklerini, dersi öğrenci merkezli anlatmayı öğreniyor." I want to say "they remind" not "they learn" since I don't think that the teacher does not know what student centered instruction is, or how to colourize lectures. Let's say I hope.

An article which describes constructivist classroom

Here is another critique on MI. Interesting insights are presented here. 

The author contrasts the MI intelligence with single intelligence and says that single intelligence is not educable, rather it is an innate capacity. As an educator, this criticism for MI is useful for me only because I remember to be critical to the theory and begin to search for weakness of it. Otherwise the authors view of single intelligence (non-educable and innate) shows me, as an educator, no direction about my teaching. So I find the Gardner's view (though it may not be a theory) more compelling than the authors view even if I agree that there are problems with Gardner's word choices. Rather than "multiple intelligence theory" he could use "practices of multiple abilities".

Çoklu Zeka Kuramı; zekanın tek bir boyutta olmadığını, aksine her bireyin farklı derecelerde, çeşitli zekalara sahip olduğunu öne sürmektedir (Gardner, 1993a, 1993b; Armstrong, 2000; Campbell & Campbell, 1999; Baş, 2009). Bireylerdeki bu zekaları ortaya çıkarabilecek olan kurum ise "okul"dur. Ancak, okulda bireylerin bu zekalarının ortaya çıkarılmasında bir takım sorunlarla karşılaşılmaktadır.

Friends, you can also find a word attachment article on mulitple intelligence on Turkish education by the instructor from Osman Gazi University. http://www.google.com.tr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CFAQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Faof20.anadolu.edu.tr%2Fbildiriler%2FBahaddin_Acat.doc&ei=SLbEUPxukd2yBqfEgfAP&usg=AFQjCNFtt27HLEJxy4iw5QGIbLi36VqsZQ&sig2=avb5EU37rNXbuYWGcW1Jtg

This is not directly related with education, but I find it helpful for internet searches. Imagine that you find an article link, that is very precious for you but when you click it, it says "this page does not exist anymore" or something else that tell you there is no access. Then, you copy paste the link to this web site and if you are lucky you see the old page, full functional. This is useful especially when you look for old web resources. Good luck :)

Here, there is a research article about Problem Based Learning.

When I was skimming through a magazine, I ran across an article about discovery learning ability of children. Especially the example of toys that was hidden in lines were interesting to read.