The word citizen plays many roles within society and through class discussion, it was found that many people have their own understanding of citizenship. How I understand citizenship is that it is a role within a community and how you choose to act within the community. What I mean by this is that there are […]
Looking into Levins Article, we see that there is much more that goes into curriculum making than what is typically thought. Its not just making a list of goals and then implementing it, there is politics as well as many different groups of people helping to develop it. The curriculum is developed on two levels, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I just wanted to say a quick thank you to my ECS professors this year as they are the only reason I have had a relatively good year in university and I wanted to put this because I genuinely am thankful for how welcoming Julie was to us and really made me feel happy to […]
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