What is the commonsense “good” student, the commonsense “good” student is essentially one that follows the rule, or stays on path. If you take Kumashiro’s story about student M for example, he or she was labeled as the “bad” student because he or she did not follow the rules and was a little rouge in […]
Being an Indigenous student and future educator, the topic of decolonization is one that interests me. While digging around I have found two articles that have drawn my interest. The first being Writing home/decolonizing text(s), Nina Asher, Asher talks about how Colonization can affect an individual. For example the sense of home, and the overall understanding of
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In Smith’s article Curriculum Theory and Practice he examines the Tyler Rationale as a practical/scientific way of viewing curriculum. Instead of the focus being on how the students teach and developing skills like critical thinking the Tyler Rationale is solely focused on the end result. An example I can remember during schooling was taking a
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Kumashino defines commonsense as what we should be doing. It is important for us to pay attention to ‘commonsense’ because the question in our head should not always be what should we do but instead what could we do. Using the ‘should we do’ moral imperative leaves you in a sort of constricted mindset, for
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