Posts tagged education
Pink o' Red
Resistance is spreading, solidarity is spreading, we are spreading
Signs Taken for Wonders: Hacking Best Practice: Fragment 1
As Paul Graham suggests in his preface to Hackers and Painters, innovation is powerfully transgressive. The innovative pedagogies we celebrate, in fact, always already transgress the principled mandates dictated by what a professional meritocracy regards as research-based “best practice.”…
Everywhere All the Time: New Deschooling Reader
Critical and Anarchist Pedagogy Anthology, PDF
Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is “schooled” to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavour are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends, and their improvement is made to depend on allocating more resources to the management of hospitals, schools, and other agencies in question.
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Anarchism and education
My new passion, if anyone has suggestions for readings on this topic…..
Thanks in advance
Parenting in the Secular Age
From the wonderful blog Parents Beyond Belief comes Ten Books for Secular and Progressive Families. If there is a youngster in your life, then these books are worth investing into. I have a few, but did not know about them all. Sharing knowledge and provoking curiosity are the best gifts we can give our children.
(Source: parentingbeyondbelief.com)
Signs Taken for Wonders: An Appeal from an English and Technology Teacher
Hopefully, hesitantly, reluctantly, but with a little despair, I’m posting a wish lists of items for my high school students. I learn with very ambitious students with very diverse learning styles, and many with language-based learning differences that can especially impact reading and writing.
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(Source: planetsedge)
A Call for Opening Up Web Access at Schools
“…But some school leaders and education advocates have argued that the Internet can be a distraction in the classroom, and that blocking social media is also a way to protect students from bullying and harassment at school.
‘I think students should have unfettered access to the library,’ said William Fitzhugh, editor of The Concord Review, which publishes history papers written by high school students, adding that many children already spend too much time on the Internet.”
If there’re calls for internet access to be regarded as a Univeral Human Right - How about human rights for apparently inhuman adolescents? Or, for the time being, can we agree on civil liberties for our adolescents?
If we can’t grant them humanity, they can settle for citizenship.
Occupy the Halls.
(Source: planetsedge)
Education for one
Create your classroom layout. Post it on Tumblr!
I challenge every teacher to create their most commonly used classroom layout using Classroom Architect and post it on Tumblr (maybe even in response to this post). Maybe make a second post of what your dream classroom would look like! Please reblog and we’ll get a ton of ideas out there!
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Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society, Chomsky suggested. “When you trap people in a system of debt . they can’t afford the time to think.” Tuition fee increases are a “disciplinary technique,” and, by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the “disciplinarian culture.” This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.
Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
[Fuck yeah - free tuition at a private school. I won’t be trapped in debt and I’ll be free to work to change society for those less privileged.]
(via zeitgeistmovement)
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