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Democracy, Community, and Youth Activism in K-12 Schooling
Democracy, Community, and Youth Activism in K-12 Schooling
One of the major arguments for a public education system is that society has a stake in instilling certain values in its citizens, and in particular, citizenship and democracy. But what does that mean. More...
Review of Learning Through Experience: Troubling Orthodoxies and Intersecting Questions
Review of Learning Through Experience: Troubling Orthodoxies and Intersecting Questions
Short review of Tara Fenwick's Learning Through Experience: Troubling Orthodoxies and Intersecting Questions. "It would seem important to take Fenwick's advice seriously," writes the reviewer. "We should stop our focus on 'learning as a rational exercise' and pay much greater attention to the 'fundamental dimensions of bodily, psychic, cultural, and social engagements.'" Some discussion with which I am in agreement about the fall of the logical positivist paradigm - a development the news of which has yet to reach some administrative offices. More...
Est-ce bien raisonnable de vouloir établir le coût des contrats d'apprentissage à la hâte ?
Sur le blog de Michel Abhervé pour Alternatives économiques. L'improvisation qui a marqué l'adoption de la loi pour la liberté de choisir son avenir professionnel, ce dont témoigne le dépôt d'amendements gouvernementaux très importants en cours de débat parlementaire, ne pouvait pas ne pas avoir de conséquences durant la phase de mise en place, ce qui arrive, comme on pouvait le prévoir. Plus...
Oui, si les vagues réchauffent le climat…
Zemmour, Meirieu et la »modernité »
Sagas
By . Sagas were, a form of oral history for the Nordic people. There were King’s sagas, which told the tales of specific rulers and their exploits, Contemporary sagas, which were a way of compiling current events, and legendary sagas which told tales of the Gods and from which our own knowledge of Norse mythology largely stems. More...
Bad Coverage
By . A clutch of recent media stories about higher education are kind of irritating me. Specifically, it’s the media credulity on display which is so disheartening.
One major source of irritation has to do with stories which get written when a professor is suspended or dismissed. We’ve had two of these recently, one in Nova Scotia and one in BC. More...
Murder on the academic express
He paused, and made eye contact with each of the twelve people around the table. More...