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Thursday, April 24, 2014

4-24-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University)

the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University):





CALL for Chapter Proposals: Adaptation as Investigations: Critically Rethinking Medium, Genre, and Text
Series: Youth Culture and Pedagogy in the 21st Century William Reynolds and Brad Porfilio, editors Lexington Books Proposed volume title: Adaptation as Investigations: Critically Rethinking Medium, Genre, and Text P. L. Thomas, editor [A]s we put into practice an education that critically provokes the learner’s consciousness, we are necessarily working against myths that deform us. As we confront

Common Core Movement Never about Teaching and Learning, Always about Testing
As of April 24, 2014, I am tired to the core of writing about the Common Core because I know three things: I’ve said everything I need to say about Common Core: (a) Arguing about the quality of the CC standards is a distraction from the essential flaw in continuing to chase better standards and tests, (b) because accountability based on standards and tests has never and will never address directl
4-23-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University)
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): Standards May Achieve Equality, But Not EquityMichelle Morrissey makes a case for Common Core in By ‘Common,’ We Mean Equity: When the Common Core State Standards emerged, it was both a shock and a revelation — for the first time, the dominant model said that my students