My thanks to Martha Ford of the Delaware Center for Teacher Education and the Delaware Writing Project for sharing this with our curriculum theory class!
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Kenneth Burke, identity / identification, Activity Theory
February 14, 2007 – 2:03 pm
While I’m at it with Kenneth Burke, here’s another favorite passage , on “identification,” illustrated with a provocative, if not downright disturbing, classroom scenario.
Included in the two pages linked above, Burke writes:
Kenneth Burke on the unending conversation
February 14, 2007 – 11:00 am
In The Philosophy of Literary Form (three pages linked here), Kenneth Burke writes
In equating “dramatic” with “dialectic,” we automatically have also our perspective for the analysis of history, which is a “dramatic” process, involving dialectical oppositions. (p. 109)
We might consider how this also applies to the analysis of curriculum. Burke writes:
Kansas School Board Action on Science Standards
February 14, 2007 – 9:21 am
The KSBE voted Feb 13, 2007 to replace the 2005-2006 standards with revised science standards that return to a definition of “science” as a quest for explanations based on natural principles, rather than including non-natural or supernatural explanations, as the previous standards had done.
Kansas science standards vote Feb 13, 2007
February 7, 2007 – 9:16 am
UPDATE Wednesday Feb 14, 2007: for the action taken by KSBE, see
http://curricublog.org/2007/02/14/kansas-science-decided/
UPDATE Sunday Feb 11, 2007: See this article in today’s LJWorld.com for background on the vote that is expected Tuesday.
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According to their agenda, the Kansas State Board of Education is scheduled to “Act on Kansas Science Education Standards” at 4:00 Tuesday afternoon on Feb. [...]
Howard Zinn on BookTV (video online)
February 4, 2007 – 11:50 am
On BookTV Howard Zinn talks about themes in his new book, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress. His talk includes comments that are relevant to the attack on Zinn by Lynne Cheney (discussed earlier here).
