To be a good student in our worlds common sense is to be one who sits quietly during class/instruction, students behave and are not “rowdy”, as well as being part of school activities. A good student will have good grades and test scores (test scores being most important in our common sense). A good student has all of their learning materials and comes to school well-rested and ready for the day. This is not what an actual good student looks…
The topic I chose for this blog post/curriculum critique is affect theory. Affect theory is the theory that seeks to organize affects into categories and to describe their manifestations; which this means that in education, the affect theory is the effect different practices have on students, and the categories we have come up with. The affect theory also clarifies why we have certain policies in education. After defining affect theory, we can see that it has a bigger role in…
The Tyler Rationale is still greatly part of our curriculum today in many ways. As such most of us have experienced some of the ways it was adopted/adapted into our curriculum. One way I experienced the Tyler Rationale during school was the focus on finals/exams as Ralph Tyler believed the final product to be the most important thing when developing a curriculum. Another way I experienced the Tyler rationale was the way things were measured in school, which was mostly…
While the usual definition of common sense is practical judgement by using prior knowledge, Kumashiro makes a new definition in this reading that applies to our education system and what is considered “common sense” to us educators. He said in the reading that “common sense does not tell us that this is what schools could be doing; it tells us that this and only this is what schools should be doing.” What I draw from this is that the common…