In my previous post I shared pictures of a hand carved spoon I am shaping from wood. I used this tool as a metaphor to explore my goals for #edu522. Got me thinking about what would the shape of the sotry be if I stretched the metaphor just a little too far. Knowledge isn't Spoon Fed In this class you design your syllabus, well the important parts. I still c
In every conversation you hear calls to get back to school, to "Get back to Normal." I don't like the old normal. Normal did not work for the majority of our children. Especially black, brown, and indigenous kids. I want to serve up something new. So to illustrate my subjectives for this class I decided to learn a bit more whittling and carve up a spoon. I b
In many ways though I see the dominance of argument to be a central problem with the enlightenment theory that tried to quantify inequality based on sex and an artificial construct of race. It goes farther then the Enlightenment The whole idea that man was given dominion over the natural world, which traces further back to Greek ideas of argument in logos, p