At some point this semester,
please post a link to an article, video, website, etc. that made you think
about something we’ve done in class. Also, please provide a brief discussion
about whatever you submitted. This has no due date, but my hope is that you
will check it periodically and read what your classmates are posting (feel free
to comment, too).
Hey guys! Here's a link to some free podcasts of lectures by William James. I have listened to several, but not all, of the lectures and he offers some really fascinating insights into truth, pragmatism, and the relevance of reality. HIs work relates well to our readings and discussions on Dewey.
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Here's an article that goes along with what we've been reading in Becker. Its a study on the challenges doctoral students face as writers. Hopefully the link will work.
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Cotterall, Sara (2011). Doctoral students writing: where’s the pedagogy. Teaching in Higher Education, 16(4), 413-425.
I came across this article the other and thought I would share. It stood out to me because in my masters program were had to write a paper about our personal philosophy of education. The paper was only a few pages long and was a great opportunity to reflect on not only our courses, but our own personal thoughts of what makes the ideal educational experience. The difficult part came in the following semester when we were tasked to take our educational philosophy and chisel it down to only a few lines. This was rather difficult. How do you fit your thoughts into only a few words. Here is what I came up with a few years ago when I was tasked with this assignment: I believe that I can take what students view as impossible and turn it into their reality. I do not want to grow the leaders of tomorrow. I want to reveal the leaders of today. Together, educators and students can innovate the future.
ReplyDeleteTake a look at this article to see some other thoughts on educational philosophies: https://www.thoughtco.com/design-your-educational-philosophy-2081733
I would love to hear what your own philosophies look like.
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteI am sharing this article because it ties in to what we have been discussing during the first half of this course. The article discusses a post-conventional paradigm as it relates to social work. The author talks about the need for social work to “reflect, re-imagine, and reform its ontological base.” I found this to be an interesting article because I had not thought about social work in this way before. I also had not quite figured out how social work fit into what we have been exploring…now, it has really clicked for me. Enjoy!
https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/20125885/8796206_Published_article_OA.pdf
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteThis might seem a little dated but if you are interested in revisiting Dewey, these might be great resources.
One day in class Dr. Stemhagen shared some books by Dewey, both of which I own! I think pages 91-100 in Democracy and Education would be a great read for the class.
During my graduate program, we read Dewey and Alfred North Whitehead's The Aims of Education and I thought these texts complimented each other well. I specifically recall a lesson in Whitehead's text that discussed the art and rhythm of education and how it informs the romance, precision and generalization of the knowledge we construct. (I didn't do that the lesson justice!) Either way it was awesome!
If anyone wants to borrow them, let me know!
Hi everyone,
ReplyDeleteIn light of the Anyon discussion about the various types of capital, I am including this link to Tara Yosso's article, "Whose Culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth" (https://doi.org/10.1080/1361332052000341006). I really enjoy/ refer to this article often because it encourages researchers to move from a deficient view or marginalized communities to an asset-based one. I think it is helpful for all of us to frequently assess our mindsets and the the ways they influence our praxis.
Happy reading!
Posted by Kendra Johnson
DeleteSo, I was trying to find a podcast that features some of the theories we have been learning about from the Anyon book. I found a podcast called The Partially Examined Life. It seems pretty cool. I found this episode about Dewey: https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2015/11/16/ep127-1-dewey/
ReplyDeleteI have not listened to the episode yet but thought I would share.
Kayla Diggs Brody posted this
ReplyDeleteThe following link will take you to an informal book review entitled "Reconsidering John Dewey's Art as Experience"
ReplyDeletehttps://hyperallergic.com/67081/reconsidering-john-deweys-art-as-experience/
I always enjoy and find insightful the articles I read on Hyperallergic. I'd read Dewey's Art as Experience when I got my Masters but had forgotten much of it. Because the book is a bit of a slog to read through, this article has proven a useful and even inspiring reminder of what I originally found so compelling in Dewey's writing. These quotes in particular resonated with me:
“In the end, works of art are the only media of complete and unhindered communication between man and man that can occur in a world full of gulfs and walls that limit community of experience.” (109)
“The moral function of art itself is to remove prejudice, do away with the scales that keep the eye from seeing, tear away the veils due to wont and custom, perfect the power to perceive.” (338)
Although it's a little dated, I found this op-ed as a really engaging read when thinking about John Dewey and higher education. It's titled John Dewey's Vision of Learning as a Freedom.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/opinion/john-deweys-vision-of-learning-as-freedom.html
As we read Dewey, at times I had a difficult time understanding the application and what it all meant to me but as I read opinions and articles related to higher education, I can finally see a different perspective. I can say that I didn't think about the groundwork that was established by Dewey and how it influenced my work, that wasn't something we truly dove in to in my master's work. However, I have gained a better understanding of his role throughout this semester.
To go along with our class discussion regarding chapter one in “Theory and Educational Research: Toward Critical Social Explanation” by Kathleen Nolan, please take a look at the following website:
ReplyDeletehttps://advancementproject.org/6-things-you-need-to-know-about-school-policing/
This specific link takes you to a page that lists “6 Things You Need to Know about School Policing.” It was posted by a multi-racial civil rights organization whose primary goal is to promote social change and eradicate structural racism. The specific list speaks about racial bias and the effect of policing and suppression of minorities in disparate numbers. It also brings into observance that many tax dollars go toward this structure that has been shown to systematically impair the safety and well-being of minorities a lot more than it could ever help.
In talking about disciplines this semester I've been particularly attuned to people's responses to different disciplines within our university as well as news reports about things going on around the world on university campuses. This American Life did an episode last year (that I just now listened to) about a campus event called The Life Raft. It was started by a philosophy professor at the University of Montevallo in Birmingham, Alabama. The pretend premise is that there's been a nuclear war that has wiped out the world except for the students in the audience at the debate. The participants in the debate are six professors from different disciplines, who give the reasons that their discipline will matter most to keep the human race alive moving forward. I thought of our class discussions about the four quadrants of types of discipline research and the views different disciplines have of the others as I listened. At the end of the debate, the students vote on one academic discipline that deserves the one empty seat that deserves to be saved - the one that will most help the students survive moving forward. Part of the show was an interesting commentary on the value brought by different disciplines as well as an interesting commentary on the depth within a debate that the students desired. They made several offhand comments like "sociology is not a real discipline" or "people were doing education for a couple thousand years before someone got the idea of having education professors." It's an interesting take on how disciplines can have practical implications for students, and an interesting forum for debate about the importance of knowledge within a university setting.
ReplyDeleteListen here:
https://shortcut.thisamericanlife.org/#/clipping/402/2490?_k=ir3a1u