ED449139 - Schools as Learning Organizations: A Review of the Literature. The Creation of High-Performance Schools through Organizational and Individual Learning (Part One of Three).
In this paper we explore the idea of a" humanizing pedagogy" and its connections to the liberatory pedagogy of Paulo Freire in the context of teacher education. Through a critical interrogation of relationships and emerging... more
In this paper we explore the idea of a" humanizing pedagogy" and its connections to the liberatory pedagogy of Paulo Freire in the context of teacher education. Through a critical interrogation of relationships and emerging identities in pedagogical contexts we argue that three dominant patterns of interaction and experience shape our teacher education pedagogies:(1) cultural dimensions of self--ways of being;(2) intellectual dimensions of self--ways of knowing;(3) social dimensions of self--ways of interacting with/ ...
In this article, we explore the complex and nebulous terrain between two theoretical concepts, imagined communities (Norton, 2000, 2001), that is, individuals' imagined affiliations with certain groups, and regimes of truth... more
In this article, we explore the complex and nebulous terrain between two theoretical concepts, imagined communities (Norton, 2000, 2001), that is, individuals' imagined affiliations with certain groups, and regimes of truth (Foucault, 1980), dominant images inscribed ...
Over the past fifteen years, a new wave of reform in mathematics education has splashed onto the national landscape. Beginning with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics ' Agenda for Action, published in 1980, a host of... more
Over the past fifteen years, a new wave of reform in mathematics education has splashed onto the national landscape. Beginning with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics ' Agenda for Action, published in 1980, a host of prominent national documents has appeared, promoting an ambitious vision of challenging mathematics instruction for all students. (California State Department of Education 1985; 1992; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 1989, 1991; National Research Council 1989). Not since the demise of the "new math " of the late 1960s has school mathematics been the object of so much attention. Based on the documents and their visibility, mathematics appears to be ahead of the other curricular areas in terms of direction, clarity, and vision. Consequently, on the national scene, educators and policymakers alike look to emulate the successes of the mathematics education community in order to animate reform agendas in other subject areas. Yet a close...
