Last January was the 40th anniversary, capture of the U.S.S. Pueblo – as commemorated then on Ed Darrell’s blog.
More recently, Ed’s added a post on the continuing repercussions of that event, even reaching to last week’s negotiated agreement between North Korea and the Bush administration over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
This new post includes a [...]
Category Archives: James Anthony Whitson
The Pueblo, me, and Washington, DC
July 2, 2008 – 11:10 pm
¿ against teaching the controversies (or “strengths and weaknesses”) ?
June 10, 2008 – 2:16 pm
While the ridicule is well deserved, I want to take exception to something possibly implied in Curmudgeon’s response, where he says that “High school students don’t know how to reach ‘their own conclusions’ about science. That’s why they’re in school! That’s why we call them students! “
Discourses, genres, and other “form fields”
February 24, 2008 – 8:31 pm
From physics, we know about magnetic fields, gravitational fields, electrical fields, and other fields of physical force.
If curriculum is the semiosic activity or course of experience in which human being comes to form, then curriculum theory and curriculum studies must be concerned with the fields of semiosic forms guiding the formation of human persons, [...]
intelligent exaptation
February 18, 2008 – 6:51 pm
At The Hive of Lost Memories, a post on “the evolution of grocery bags” provides a superb example of exaptation, from outside the realm of biological evolution:
Plastic or paper? I first heard of the question after a couple of days of my arrival to the United States when I was out with my brother [...]
Curriculum Consciousness and Brown v. Board of Education
January 15, 2008 – 12:10 am
Earlier posts here have considered how curriculum is understood as involving more than just the kind of “course of study” for which the word “curriculum” is often used. The consequences of this broader understanding can be seen in the testimony of Dr. Hugh W. Speer, chairman of the Department of Education at the University of Kansas City, in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
E.O. Wilson on BookTV (& “methodological naturalism”)
August 3, 2007 – 12:20 pm
E.O. Wilson will be featured in a 3-hour interview program on CSpan-2 in the US Sunday August 5 Here is a question that I’ve sent by email. I don’t expect they’ll use it, but I’d be interested in responses from others as well. Since this blog concerns curriculum, the question here is not whether ID is true or not, but whether it belongs in science classes.
Curriculum & the post-(cognitivist) synthesis
January 28, 2007 – 10:39 pm
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.”
“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 [...]
“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.
