How are School Curricula Developed and Implemented The Levin article discusses how school curricula are developed and implemented. For the most part, politics and policy play a large role in how this gets done. Political ideology and lobbying influence play a big role. Unfortunately, this is not the most ideal way to develop curricula. Although […]
Defining what it means to be a “good” student according to commonsense, requires us to think back to how we defined this term in last weeks blog. I understood the term to mean, “facets of life that everyone should know”. Based on this definition, what it means to be a “good” student will vary depending […]
Kumashiro uses his experiences in Nepal, where he taught in a small village, to anecdotally come up with a definition for common sense. While in Nepal, he frequently describes how it took time for him to get accustomed to the different ways of living with the villagers as compared to in the US, such as […]