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Why academia's war with the web is bad for critical pedagogy | The Paulo and Nita Freir... - 0 views

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    this aversion to the social web is coming at a great cost to those of us who are involved in a mission of social justice and critical pedagogy.
Bill Anderson

Edge: THE IMPENDING DEMISE OF THE UNIVERSITY By Don Tapscott - 0 views

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    The demise of the university is starting to sound repetitious and banal. A digital generation has its own ideas about learning and learning practices. According to this short intro we don't need experts, we have the internet. I'm skeptical and becoming wary.
anonymous

Schools of thought: teach children philosophy, experts urge | News crumb | EducationGua... - 0 views

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    Children of all ages should study philosophy in school to develop their critical thinking skills, education experts said today.
anonymous

Public pedagogy: its more than media representations and popular T.V. (Monash University) - 0 views

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    In this paper we develop a notion of public pedagogy that deviates from the one espoused by Giroux and his focus on postmodernism and popular culture. Our theoretical framework is based on young peoples engagements with media texts, their involvement with youth arts projects and the ways in which community members read youth arts projects and the artefacts they produce.
anonymous

[video] Henry Giroux: Figures in Critical Pedagogy - 0 views

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    To watch the rest of this video visit: http://freire.education.mcg... A dialogue between Joe L. Kincheloe, Canada Research Chair in Critical Pedagogy and Henry A. Giroux, Global Television Network...
anonymous

[critical pedagogy] Paolo Freire: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Cou... - 0 views

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    he has new things to say about ideology and freedom in a world marked by a threatening 'globalization' and an unprecedented manipulation by media. As before, he speaks of 'passion,' 'love,' and 'caring,' and each time he does so, it is as if his hand gras
anonymous

bell hooks on education - 0 views

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    She sees parents and students fearing alternative ways of thinking. She maintains that it is vital to challenge all the misinformation that is constantly directed at people and poses as objective unbiased knowledge. She sees this as an essential educational task
anonymous

Teaching for social justice (definition: wikipedia) - 0 views

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    Over the course of dozens of books, Freire proposed that educators focus on creating equity and changing systems of oppression within public schools and society
anonymous

Half an Hour: The New Nature of Knowledge | Downes - 0 views

  • He writes, "I should warn you that this is probably not a particularly suitable topic for a blog - an academic paper might be more appropriate to do the subject full justice."
  • No, there is a supposition that the type of writing in an "academic paper" is a different type of writing from what he is offering here.
  • The same content may very well be presented in either, and the difference lies only in how that content is treated: subject to secret review and editing in the one case, and open scrutiny in the other.
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  • "the boundaries between traditional disciplines are dissolving, traditional methods of representing knowledge (books, academic papers, and so on) are becoming less important, and the role of traditional academics or experts are undergoing major change,"
  • These are points that have been captured in a wide body of writings, from Gibson's depiction of Cyberspace to the perceptron of the 1950s and the connectionist literature of the 1980s to populist works such as Rushkoff's Cyberia and the widely popular Cluetrain Manifesto. It is hard to know where this account originates; everybody (including the academics) as as though they have discovered it for the first time.
  • knowledge is not an object, but a series of flows; it is a process, not a productit is produced not in the minds of people but in the interactions between peoplethe idea of acquiring knowledge, as a series of truths, is obsolete
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    "the boundaries between traditional disciplines are dissolving, traditional methods of representing knowledge (books, academic papers, and so on) are becoming less important, and the role of traditional academics or experts are undergoing major change,"
anonymous

[abstract] Situated learning in the network society and the digitised school - European... - 0 views

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    There is a need to develop a broader view of knowledge to deal with the way in which new digital trends influence the underlying conditions for schools, teaching and subjects. This theoretical article will therefore examine whether a broader view of knowledge, digital literacy and assessment forms can generate new ways of adapted education within Knowledge Promotion Reform and the digitised school.
anonymous

Curriculum: informal + hidden + null + phantom + internal + electronic = Imminent? : Jo... - 0 views

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    JConnell discusses "imaginative range of curriculum 'types' that encompasses the formal, informal and hidden curricula, but adds a few more beside"
anonymous

[video] Culture, Politics & Pedagogy: A Conversation w/ Henry Giroux - 0 views

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    An active citizen, says the prolific and influential Henry Giroux, is "somebody who has the capacity not only to understand and engage the world but to transfom it when necessary, and to believe that he or she can do that." In this provocative new intervi
anonymous

The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy | The Paulo and N... - 0 views

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    The Freire Project is dedicated to building an international critical community which works to promote social justice in a variety of cultural contexts. We are committed to conducting and sharing critical research in social, political, and educational locations. READ MORE
anonymous

Critical Pedagogy on the Web: Home - 0 views

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    This site has a dual focus, providing both a general overview of critical pedagogy--its definitions, history, key concepts, and major theorists--and links to other critical pedagogy resources on the web
anonymous

Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work by Jean Anyon - 0 views

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    students in different social-class backgrounds are rewarded for classroom behaviors that correspond to personality traits allegedly rewarded in the different occupational strata--the working classes for docility and obedience, the managerial classes for initiative and personal assertiveness.
anonymous

Hidden curriculum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    Hidden curriculum is difficult to explicitly define because it varies among its students and their experiences and because is it constantly changing as the knowledge and beliefs of a society evolve.
anonymous

[video] Culture, Politics & Pedagogy: A Conversation w/ Henry Giroux - 0 views

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    Giroux advocates for a pedagogy that challenges inequality, oppression, and fundamentalism. Essential viewing for students of education, cultural studies, and communication.
anonymous

The Constructivist Consortium - Bookstore - 0 views

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    Some of my favourite books! all in one place.
anonymous

Slashdot | YouTube Breeding Harmful Scientific Misinformation - 0 views

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    As information becomes more and more viral, public educators have an ethical and moral obligation to teach our students skills of critical inquiry and multiple literacies.
anonymous

Web 2.0 Tools - Web 2.0 That Works: Marzano & Web 2.0 - 0 views

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    SD = Identifying Similarities and Differences CL = Cooperative Learning SNT = Summarizing and Note-Taking ER = Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition HP = Homework and Practice NR = Nonlinguistic Representation OF = Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback HYP = Generating and Testing Hypotheses QCO = Questions, Cues, and Advance Organizers
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