#educational theory

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"Children grow into the intellectual life of those around them." Vygotsky, L. (1978). Mind in Society. Harvard University Press.

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The Gordon Sequence got me like

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Advancements in education. Canadian Neighbourhood. 1933. 

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The Shift in Student Expectations: From Effort to Excellence

The Shift in Student Expectations: Effort vs. Excellence After two decades immersed in the world of education, I believed I had encountered every conceivable argument from students vying for a better grade. However, during a recent weeklong course that featured a relatively light workload, I was struck by a new refrain from multiple students: “My grade doesn’t reflect the effort I put into this…

The Shift in Student Expectations: From Effort to Excellence

[yosuisnathan]

I just read the most incredible article ever for my English class. It was about theories of anti-oppresive education, and I must say it was one of the most mind blowing things I have ever read. Going into it, I was not excited to read 30 pages of theory, but it was incredible. Here’s a quote from it that really hit me. 

“Although we do not want to be the same, we also do not want to be better, since any utopian vision would simply be a different and foretold way to be, and thus, a different way to be stuck in a reified sameness; rather, we ant to constantly become, we want difference, change, newness. And this change cannot come if we close off that space-between” (Kumashiro). 

Just woah. I’m probably a tired nerd who was dumbfounded by this, but I wanted to share it since I was so impacted by that statement.

Best,

Nathan

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[thrymsusano]

Development in children never follows school learning the way a shadow follows the object that casts it.

Vygotski, Mind In Society [1979]

[bellemaddox]

Gramsci’s theory of hegemony as a form of cultural pedagogy is also invaluable as an element of critical educational thought. By emphasizing the pedagogical force of culture, Gramsci expands the sphere of the political by pointing to those diverse spaces and spheres in which cultural practices are deployed, lived, and mobilized in the service of knowledge, power and authority. For Gramsci, learning and politics were inextricably related and took place not merely in schools but in a vast array of public sites.

Henry Giroux, On Critical Pedagogy (2011)