If “cognitivism” is an ideology that represents learning and understanding as matters that can be understood, in a reductive way, as being, in their essence, just matters of “cognition,” it does not follow that advancing beyond cognitivism would mean taking up a newer ideology of “postcognitivism.”
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Brayton on Steve Fuller & Intelligent Design
January 26, 2007 – 8:30 pm
For curricublog, Ed Brayton’s post on Steve Fuller & ID is relatively interesting.
“Conceptions of Curriculum”
January 25, 2007 – 3:38 pm
A short pdf document (just over one page) on “What is Curriculum” can be found on the website of the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) in London. It begins by noting:
As with most things in education, there is no agreed definition of ‘curriculum’, although it is generally agreed that ‘curriculum’ is not the [...]
Cato: CHOICE would prevent curriculum conflicts
January 24, 2007 – 2:10 pm
The Cato Institute has release a report titled Why We Fight: How Public Schools Cause Social Conflict by Neal McClusky, which makes the case for school choice as a preventive solution for avoiding conflict over public school curriculum.
constructivism v. postpositivism
January 24, 2007 – 1:29 pm
I am very interested in the general question of constructivism v. postpositivism, however, and I have a paper coming out soon that the reader would be interested in, I think. It should be published sometime this spring, and the citation will be: Whitson, James Anthony. “Education À La Silhouette: The Need for Semiotically-Informed Curriculum Consciousness.” Semiotica 164, no. 1/4 (2007): 235-329.
Washington State Parent Objects to Global Warming Video « Graceful Flavor
January 18, 2007 – 8:07 pm
Link to: School Board Folds After One Idiot Parent Objects to Global Warming Video « Graceful Flavor
Kansas science standards update
January 9, 2007 – 11:46 am
There are now indications that the Kansas Board’s action on science standards (and the evolution issue) could come as early as February, but it seems to me that March may be more likely.
“lesson study” & teachers’ unions
January 6, 2007 – 8:42 pm
Mike is asking about the role of teachers’ unions in education reforms … Another relevant source of examples, it seems to me, would be the role of unions in districts where “lesson study” has been implemented. Any real “lesson study” effort requires real time and other resources. In union-organized school districts, it seems to me commitment and support from both the District and the Union would be absolutely necessary.
