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Move from Director of Technology to Academic Technology Director??
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Dan Trockman Jul. 28, 2008.
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Jane
http://technojane.blogspot.com/
Posted on October 20, 2008 at 2:11pm —
My Blog on Progressive Education...or not
I created a blog to try to get at the meaning of Progressive Education. Any and all thoughts would be most appreciated! Help me not give up Blogging after three posts!
Jane
Posted on December 12, 2007 at 6:57pm — 15 Comments
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my old colleeg friend demitri started this group - cool huh?
hope all is well w you at elm lea!
talk soon JB!
ps; i like you fan club site
One of the challenges of talking about progressive education these days (aside from everyone thinking that it's the same thing as "permissive") is that you really can't avoid talking about PE's heritage in progressive politics. Some folks seem to get very uncomfortable acknowledging that an educational philosophy comes with a political philosophy attached. I don't see how one can avoid acknowledging this, but for some reason, in a very diverse and aggressively multicultural environment, some adults (at our school, at least) suddenly get nervous about about statements of values that seem to have a (lefty) political flavor. Don't really see why we have to welcome homophobia as a point of view in the name of welcoming all points of view in the name of inclusivity, but somehow the paradox here isn't a problem for some folks. (I just think it would be okay to say we're, you know, against it.)
Pedagogically I think that we are in an era of what I would call the New Progressivism, a philosophical epoch built on ideas around assessment, curriculum design, scheduling, multiculturalism, global thinking, sustainability, school structure, etc. that have been given impetus by people like Sizer, Gardner, Delpitt, Wiggins, Meier, Orr, Perkins, Banks, and many more. The real continuity from original progressivism comes in the notion of student-centeredness as well as the "political" idea that the end of education should be a more complete, informed democracy; the "social justice," service learning," "equity pedagogy" pieces of the New Progressivism flow directly out of Dewey in that regard.
Anyhow, cool stuff, and yes I do recall our conversation early in my struggles with the book on teacher hiring and retention.
Cheers!