Blog Post 1: Common Sense
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…