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Sketching a course 4
Stuff to expose students to Street-level bureaucracy/loosely-coupled systems Arguments over what the links between education and democracy are Habits etc. Grasping POV within nonfiction Experiences Staying with a the development of a complex idea through its nuances Multiple-resolution understanding: Seeing the flowers (details) and the landscape (10,000-foot view) at the same time
Open-source textbooks
This morning, Inside Higher Ed has a good article on faculty who write open-source texts. In the end, it’ll be faculty decisions that determine whether this is a viable alternative to expensive texts.
Sketching a course 3
Habits etc. Reading at multiple levels: for information, for a story, for perspective Evaluation at multiple levels: consistency/logic, newness, accuracy, relevance of questions Writing through multiple drafts Revision with an audience in mind Experiences Reading for wonder Writing as joyful Writing as intense Writing to sort through ideas and then present them
Sketching a course 2
Stuff to expose students to The difference between the rhetoric of federalism/local control and the (maybe chaotic) reality of education reform (multiple sources) Politicization and education as part of citizenship (multiple sources) Curriculum as projection of values (Kliebard) Finances and reform rhetoric (multiple sources: need an argument more than pat descriptions)
Sketching a course 1
In the next few days I need to carve out time for journal editing responsibilities as well as writing a symposium paper I’d promised to be finished by Friday but probably won’t be done until next Tuesday or so. (There, Laura! I’ve made that commitment publicly.) But since I’m waiting for a student to show […]