Ralph Tyler presented a model of curriculum design in 1949 that is still the foundation of many designs used today. [...]
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…a story about a student I once taught to improve her writing skills and a question of whether or not this was truly a benefit for her… [...] I just found this post on the Elementary Educator, where the author discusses the way that school curricula have become “sanitized” to not offend anyone by giving children the information to make their own informed opinions that could possibly in contrast to their parents. As a result, we may be creating a generation of students [...] What matters more – the memorization of answers to trivial questions or familiarity with the tools to find the answers? [...]
The debate has come up again in Texas. This is important for the entire nation because textbook publishers in their diligence to keep costs low and profits high refer to write only one version of the content and just make minor adaptations to fit each state’s curriculum guidelines. Because of this, Texas, with its enormous [...] It is fascinating to read about events such as the American Revolution in a French textbook … 1) History becomes compartmentalized into an abstract string of facts that is not relevant to the world in which we live today. 2) It fosters a seperationist attitude in American students which will become increasingly damaging as the world grows more and more globally connected … So what should be done about this? [...] Jennifer Hochschild and Nathan B. Scovronick teamed up to show the ways in which the public education system advances, but also hinders, the ability to pursue the “American Dream”, in their 2003 book The American Dream and the Public Schools The Winter 2008 issue of Harvard Educational Review contains an interesting article by Pat Clifford and Susan Marinucci on Inquiry-based Learning. Here is the abstract from the publisher:
The article does an excellent job of explaining the nature of Inquiry-based Learning as a teaching method and addresses many of the common reasons for resistance to this method, such as the concern that it will not meet curriculum standards, that there is not enough time, or that the class will get away from the teacher’s control.
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. After first coming up with a definition of what the American dream is, they explore what Americans want and expect from public schools, in the areas of desegregation; finance reform; school choice; curriculum reform; inclusion; and multiculturalism, among others. Their explanations center around three purposes of education: (1) advancement of the individual; (2) improvement of societal goals; (3) furthering the agenda of a particular group or special interest.
A New World?
In relation to yesterday’s honor of Christopher Columbus and his “discovery” of “A New World”, I began thinking of the millions of people that were already living there. While they new it existed, their world changed with the arrival of Europeans as well. However, our history books don’t always teach us that. The video below may [...]