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Recommended Reading for Fall 2006Change Theories: Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire - An Analysis On the Communication Initiative Web site. Promethean Education: Liberation or Chained to the Same Old Rock? Paulo Freire and the Contradictions of Literate Democracy A Presentation by Dr. Rich Gibson, Coordinator of Social Studies an International Education, Wayne State University, Detroit. NCSS Conference. 25 November 1996. "It is riveting yet somewhat puzzling to me that other nations might look to the United States for hints about the relationship of democracy and literacy when the US suffers from an illiteracy rate of about 25%, massive constant color-coded unemployment, the collapse of its social service safety net, an all-out assault on the conditions of work among those who still have jobs, a representative government that can only conduct elections via millionaires, and a twist of scholarship that elevates the geneticist arguments of the Bell Curve to the focal point of public discourse." As I read this I was thinking of Adorno and Horkheimer who despaired that the Enlightenment produced inhuman horrors as well as modern technology. jeanne Education as a Project of Identity Formation Learning in NGO's [Non Governmental Organizations's] as the Opening of the Future By Christina Schachtner. Prof. Dr. Christina Schachtner, Philipps-Universität Marburg. Marburg,Germany. Freire Online, 2003. This article is free online. It describes work shared across the Atlantic, Brazil to Germany, and across age groups, young people, and women from 44 to 70, in local groups taking responsibility for and tackling local problem issues. We would welcome a reaction in several paragraphs that we could share on Dear Habermas. jeanne Transformative Media Education By Jeff Share. Freire Online. Volume No. 1, Issue No. 2, July 2003. "A transformative education uses constructivist pedagogy in which students actively construct and reconstruct knowledge, thereby transforming meanings to arrive at new understandings and different ways of thinking. Beyond the constructivist notion of the creation of knowledge, transformative education also includes critical pedagogy to critique the social construction of ideas and reject the notion that knowledge is value free. Critical pedagogy brings the additional goal of transforming society in a liberating manner to become more democratic and less oppressive. This pedagogical approach is the opposite of transmissive or banking pedagogy, an unproblematic, ahistorical, positivist approach that tends to transmit dominant ideology and preserve the status quo." (Op.cit., first paragraph.) This article is free online. For a group that calls its open discussion group Transforming Dominant Discourse, it would seem to offer important sources, concepts, and models. Political Aims and Classroom Dynamics: Generative Processes in Classroom Communities By Nancy Ares, Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, University of Rochester. Radical Pedagogy (2006). ISSN: 1524-6345. This article is free online. It has a highly technical style. But we might consider what it tells us about bringing students, especially ones not in the custody of educational institutions, into the horizontal process of learning. jeanne George Lakoff, Simple Framing Social psychology of the left and right, liberal and conservative. Lakoff's perspective is left. But Republicans have moved this learning into political consulting, and they do not make their theory and research public. If you read Lakoff's book, you'll have the basic learning and can transfer it through what is available on the Internet, where the Conservative Consultants (Like Luntz, see below.) advertise and have web sites.jeanne
- Whose Idea of Freedom Will Shape America’s Future? by George Lakoff. Editorial from the Boston Globe, Tuesday, July 4, 2006.Available online free. Gives Lakoff's passionate belief in the importance of language as this country moves through the difficult paradigm switch from nation-state to global community. jeanne
- Framing Versus Spin: Rockridge as opposed to Luntz by George Lakoff, Sam Ferguson. (c) The Rockridge Institute, 2006 (We invite the free distribution of this article.)
Respect for the Law and Economic Fainess: Illegal Immigration Prevention Luntz, Maslansky Strategic Research. Luntz Research & Strategic Services . The Public Opinion Company . Luntz Corporate . Luntz Worldwide. This is a piece by the man doing most of the Republican linguistic strategy and presentation, as I understand it.Overview: The Four Principles"Americans are not only ready for an overhaul of illegal immigration policy, they are demanding it. It has become such an important issue that many are willing to vote against their traditional party if they disagree with a candidate’s position on immigration reform.
Linguistically, as you enter the debate, there are four key themes that must represent the core of your message: prevention, protection, accountability and compassion.
- Crucial Issues Not Addressed in the Immigration Debate: Why Deep Framing Matters By George Lakoff and Sam Ferguson. The Rockridge Institute "Constructive critics of our paper The Framing of Immigration have suggested that we say more about immigration and American workers. We do that here. Other critics have misframed framing and attacked us for engaging in it. We respond." Available free online.
- Occupation: The Inconvenient Truth About Iraq.by George Lakoff "It is time to tell an inconvenient truth about Iraq: it is an occupation, not a war. In wars, armies fight to dominate land. The US won the war three years ago when Bush said, “Mission Accomplished”. Then the occupation started, and our troops were not trained or equipped for an occupation under predictably hostile circumstances. Finally getting the courage to tell the truth that the US is an occupying force drastically changes the picture in Iraq. You cannot “win” an occupation. “Cut and run” does not apply to an occupation. Occupiers have to leave; the only question is when and how. Progressive Democrats agree that it should be soon; they only disagree on details. Political courage is called for. Truth now!" Available free online.
- Provincial Examinations in British Columbia Link on Grade 12. Would you have expected to find Mandarin as one of the subjects tested?
- The Nature of Situated Learning By Paula Vincini. Tufts University Newsletter. pdf file.
"In 1929 in The Aims of Education and Other Essays, noted British mathematician, logician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead protested against the way students were taught“inert” knowledge that proved useless to them when they needed to transfer it to real life problem solving. Situated learning theory provides an antidote to this type of education."The theory behind situated learning or situated cognition arises from the fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, and cognitive science. The seminal paper “Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning” (www.ilt.columbia.edu/ilt/papers/JohnBrown.html) by John Seely Brown, Allan Collins, and Paul Duguid brought situated cognition to the forefront as an emerging instruction model. In this paper, the authors criticize public schooling for separating the “knowing and doing” and for treating knowledge “as an integral, self-sufficient substance, theoretically independent of the situations in which it is learned and used.
Other theorists (Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger, Lev Vygotsky, John Dewey, and J. G. Greeno) associated with situated learning theory argue that knowledge must be taught in context and not in the abstract. Learners must use tools as practitioners use them and become “cognitive apprentices” in that discipline’s community and its culture."
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