EDU+581+Using+Their+Own+Words

In the Noddings book we are reading //about// various philosophies and their adherents. It is also valuable (here my Perennialist leanings are showing!) to wrestle with the texts themselves. We will go over these educational theories and link them to the various philosophies in class. You may remember these (and others) from an undergraduate philosophy of education class.
 * Using Their Own Words **

This is a group assignment. You need to figure out a way to communicate with your group members in order to put together a brief presentation (no more than 10 minutes) that considers the following:

What is your author’s vision of education? What concepts from your reading influence schools today? What ideas are more in the rhetoric of schooling than in the practice? What works against putting the vision of your particular theorist in practice? In what ways is your theorist’s approach to schooling ethical? What do you like/dislike? Group members do not have to be unanimous in their opinions!

Here are the choices:

Perennialism: Adler’s Paideia Proposal

Essentialism—//Cultural Literacy// by ED Hirsch. Preface and chapters 1,5,6. As a rebuttal, chapter 7 from Kliebard’s book (Becky has the Kliebard book and will let you borrow it. //Cultural Literacy// is available through ILL.)

Progressivism/pragmatism: Dewey’s //Experience and Education //Becky has 1 copy; others are available through ILL.

Social Reconstructionism: Counts’s //Dare the School Build a New Social Order?// Becky has one copy; others are available through ILL. Also: Anything by Paulo Freire--Becky has one book and others are available in Mantor.

Existentialism: Maxine Greene: Becky has some articles. Also AS Neill and Summerhill.