I got the key to my
office today, then met with Dr. Ollie-Pekka Moisio regarding our joint
interests in critical pedagogy. Dr.
Moisio has written extensively on the topic; the focus of our talk was about
how to implement CP. Too often the role
of critical pedagogy is limited to analysis and complaint, but often fails to
suggest means to speak to power; to engage students in humane ways that
facilitate transformative learning. We shared our means for engaging students.
Dr. Moisio advocates use of “student circles” which are very similar to the
sort of plan my son, Ian, uses in teaching his philosophy classes. Herein,
groups are formed, and roles assigned to entail responsibility (recorder, timer, monitor, etc.), questions provided to
lead students to perspectives and insights, presentation of ideas). I talked about my extensive use of contracts
or task choices in my courses to facilitate personal interest and engagement.
We spent time discussing
my efforts to develop a third dimension of “culture / discipline” drawn from the literature as it broadly speaks
to explorations of what constitutes a “discipline” or “intellectual clan”; the
languages of such groups and the function of those languages to accomplishing
tasks or limiting membership and staking out locations of power. This third dimension will shift analysis of
instructional design from a plane plotting framing and classification decisions
to a more complex analysis grounding those decisions guided by disciplinary
habitus. Click here to see a rudimentary visual version of the model.
Lunch was
extraordinarily delicious and unique (for me).
Check your guess by clicking here.
Is that what you were thinking?
The dish was “Game soup” of meat, potato, carrot, onion, peppercorn, and
some herbs; the soup was accompanied with homemade Finnish rye bread. Extremely simple and delicious.
I’m still thinking about it!
I can't see the picture! (Blogger says I don't have access to it.)
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I think you should be able to link to the picture, now. Rye bread is very crispy on the outside and light and airy with a mild rye flavor. This was warm, moist, and crispy!
DeleteBrilliant! I like seeing the 3D model again, the computer made lines bring clarity to the concepts. It interesting to see the language you have used (not a criticism). "Suffers" from weak framing and classification. And "benefits" from weakening framing and classification to add creativity. It makes me wonder if it works both ways. Disciplines with strong framing and classification benefit by seeking productive tasks and disciplines with weak framing and classification benefit by seeking reproductive tasks. Just thoughts as I read. Cheers from Buenos Aires. Can't wait to dive deeper into habitus.
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