This blog has been mostly dedicated to exploring education perspectives on public education locally and nationally (US). But since I retired from teaching in August 2013, I have found myself re-examining and rethinking the paradigms that dominate the discussion of education. Here's the beginning of this thought process.
Can we measure all that is education? Does it matter if Charter Schools do as well as Public Schools on tests that rely on accumulation and recapitulation of knowledge if these tests do not describe what we mean by education. I have become sceptical of the model that I for so long have endorsed. This begins to bear a whole realm of factors in which I have more recently been more vested. What is the relationship between my Christian commitments of long ago and understanding education? How do we move to a new model that incorporates these spiritual understandings without sounding like "Christian" education is the answer?
For those of you who know me, the change in direction of this Blog will not be a surprise. For the anyone else you might well question.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Friday, April 4, 2014
New Directions
New directions has that inherent goodness of double meaning. I hope to expand on this theme. So here it is ....
"The things I thought were so important - because of the effort I put into them - have turned out to be of small value. And the things I never thought about, the things I was never able to either to measure or to expect, were the things that mattered." Thomas Merton Fire Watch, July 4th, 1952
"The things I thought were so important - because of the effort I put into them - have turned out to be of small value. And the things I never thought about, the things I was never able to either to measure or to expect, were the things that mattered." Thomas Merton Fire Watch, July 4th, 1952
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