At some point this semester,
please post a link to an article, video, website, etc. that made you think
about something we’ve done in class. Also, please provide a brief discussion
about whatever you submitted. This has no due date, but my hope is that you
will check it periodically and read what your classmates are posting (feel free
to comment, too).
I stumbled on this article about using research in education (namely, they liked research for instructional practices)- it is a quick, good read!
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I like this positive article! It is good to know our efforts may be looked at and possibly used for change. It was good to read that some research is helping to make professional development workshops which is what I hope will come out of my research! :) - Jodi
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ReplyDeleteThe following link to a Ted talk looks at the changing paradigms of education over the years. I feel as though there are philosophies and ideas covered that, as researchers, we need to be aware of and realize how quickly education changes yet stays the same. Enjoy!
https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_changing_education_paradigms
Hey, it’s Laurie.
ReplyDeleteI thought you might need a pep talk about your writing, so here’s an excerpt from Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird. Her advice is very reminiscent of Becker’s.
http://wp.vcu.edu/univ200choice/wp-content/uploads/sites/5337/2015/01/Bird-by-Bird.pdf
This is Carolyn~ Gabriel Reich directed me to Jeffery Duncan-Andrade's "cariño" theory in research methodology. Borrowing from Angela Valenzuela (keynote speaker at the SOE research symposium this spring), who borrows from Nel Noddings' pragmatist Care Theory, Duncan-Andrade says cariño is "authentic caring" in a reciprocal relationship between teacher and student (as opposed to "aesthetic caring," which is superficial, as in "we care about your scores on the standardized test"). Duncan-Andrade says educational research is problematic in two ways: first, it aspires to methodologies appropriate in other fields but useless in education, and second, it neglects cariño or authentic caring in a field that's about nurturing students.
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Duncan-Andrade, J. M. R. (2006). Utilizing cariño in the development of research methodologies. In Kincheloe, J. L.,Hayes, K., Rose, K., and Anderson, P. M. (Eds.), The praeger handbook of urban education (451-462). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.
This is Weade....Our class discussions on inequity in education made me think of Gloria Ladson-Billings' extensive work on critical race theory. Below is a useful article which applies critical race theory to understanding educational inequity.
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This is Mo.. I thought you might find this interesting. It relates to the discussion we had last week about school segregation. The stories are from "This American Life".
ReplyDelete“In this series of episodes, reporters Chana Joffe-Walt and Nikole Hannah Jones radically reframed a familiar and entrenched problem: American schools are racially segregated and unequal.
Three Miles is the story of what happened when a Bronx public high school visited a private school. The consequences of our existing unequal, segregated education extend beyond academics and well into adulthood.
The Problem We All Live With - Part One and Part Two make a case for school desegregation, something that is almost never considered a serious option any more. We look at two places that tried to integrate schools, one on purpose and one by accident”
Forgot to include the link:
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Tonya here:
ReplyDeleteCalling all mathematicians! Or not? This article was quite interesting. It shows the importance of humility, and the real implications of our research and the real unintended (or intended) consequences if we narrow the discourse...
This article is from the weekly Swail Newsletter by the Watson Scott Swail the President and CEO of the Educational Policy Institute.
Thought-provoking quote: "we use mathematics as an unrealistic, perhaps unethical, practice of limiting college enrollment."
https://etwus.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/how-much-mathematics-is-enough/
Holly here ... We talked repeatedly about the contrasts between medicine and education, and about how our field is being pushed to be more like medicine. When I was writing about humility earlier this week, the phrase "do no harm" came to mind, which reminded me of the Hippocratic Oath. I'd never read the Hippocratic Oath, so I looked it up. It's really interesting to me, and I thought it might be to you too. I started to wonder about what an educational research version might include, and why there isn't one. Anyway, here is the modern version ...
ReplyDeleteI swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:...
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. Above all, I must not play at God.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.
Orlando, Alton Sterling, Dallas, Philando Castile, Nice, Istanbul, Baton Rouge, the attempted coup in Turkey. We’ve seen a lot of tragedy over the past few weeks. Unfortunately, I feel as though I’m forgetting something, somehow becoming desensitized to this daily barrage of carnage. Watching as this becomes a part of our normal everyday life. It’s heartbreaking. What is our role as academics in all of this, what is our role as educators? Certainly part of our duty as public intellectuals would be to change the world for the better. Shouldn't we be talking about these things in class and in our program?
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