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Inner Mounting Flames
(source) Back during my Middlebury Vermont chapter, Dennis Sparling and I spent some quality time naked at his family’s quarry in New Haven. This was over twenty-five years ago. Still, lying around naked and learning in the quiet way that … Continue reading
Posted in art, artists, friends, personal, self-knowledge
Tagged Dennis Sparling, education, learning
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What Is Your Personal Culture?
One view of the reduction to practice, or to application. In the fall of 1968 I entered ninth grade. I was, up to ninth grade, a lackadaisical student. What was at the time termed social studies, and english, were my … Continue reading
American Oyster
2012 Presidential election. Thank you foxbusiness.com. Of course: lies and damn statistics — ignorance may exist anywhere and obviously a college degree isn’t an arbiter. For example, we have persons educated as medical doctors serving in the US Congress … Continue reading
Posted in current events, sociology
Tagged demographics, education, education-by-state, Henry Adams, high learning, politics, voting
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Research Post Toasties
Invaluable: Research Blogging Portal. Researcgblogging.org aggregates blogs and their posts produced by academics. Where else could you easily find, Why Justin Timberlake Should Avoid Transitive Verbs. I track a lot of subjects which interest me. This effort is subject to … Continue reading
Posted in education
Tagged education, new blogs, pdf:article, research tools, resources
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The Library Is Open
featuring 24,014,408 books (including 1,251,822 with full-text) [as of April 27, 2010] One web page for every book ever published. It’s a lofty, but achievable, goal. To build it, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, … Continue reading
Posted in adult learning, education
Tagged adult learning, community development, education, libraries, self-education
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Catastrophic Image
The Shadow that the Future Throws Text based on a conversation between Nathan Gardels and Ivan Illich in 1989 Now, nearly two decades [after 1969] later, a woeful sense of imbalance has dawned on the common sense. The destruction of … Continue reading
Posted in education
Tagged critical culture, culture captures - old school, economics, education, Ivan Illich, phenomenology
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Quest to Learn
[excerpt] she won’t know if the school prepares kids for real-world success until the first class graduates. But Quest has already proved itself in one area: The kids love it. “It’s fun,” says student Nadine Clements. Her least favorite part … Continue reading
Groups & the Development of Consciousness
My colleague and friend Robert has asked in a comment to Sustainability, Systems Awareness & Eros, “However saying that, I don’t know if the “group” consciousness actually manages to effect a real conscious change in both individuals and in groups. … Continue reading
ONLINE VIDEOS FOR TEACHERS
Annenburg Media provides online and material resources to, “to advance excellent teaching in American schools.” Anybody can sign up and view the online videos. Each is described and most are components in comprehensive continuation of teacher education. I highly recommend … Continue reading
MAPPING MUSICAL EXPERIENCE
Given any rich experience, what happens when we commit our sensibility to graphically mapping the experience in real time? Deborah Blair’s paper is fascinating. Her model has much wider applications. And, this toolmaker came up with many such possibilities. By … Continue reading
MONKEY PREZ
Bill Maher embarrassed Mike Huckabee and himself during a brief inquiry into the Republican candidate’s position on evolution on a segment on Maher’s show Sunday. Maher’s sloppy question, “Don’t you believe we’re descended from monkeys?” is obviously the wrong formulation … Continue reading
FUTURE CREATIVITY
From NESTA FutureLab, a long report, Literature review in creativity, new technologies and learning, Avril M. Loveless, School of Education, University of Brighton about the technological support of Creativity. No short paper can do justice to a field as expansive … Continue reading
SUNNY’S SIGHTS
At Lifecircles there is a small amount of excellent material. From a paper by Sunny Cooper, Transformational Learning. Sunny’s Learning Theory Map remains one of the few summaries a web surfer can get to easily. Appendix A. Instructor Characteristics and … Continue reading
Posted in adult learning, education
Tagged adult learning, education, experiential learning, transformative learning
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LIST – PEDAGOGY
I don’t recall how I happened upon this page and its list of pedagogies. Probably I was nosing around for something or the other. Anyway, the page’s home is The Math and Science Partnership Network. (I had thought they were … Continue reading
Posted in adult learning, education
Tagged adult learning, education, experiential learning
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HEY, BUT IT WORKS!
Experiential-researchers.org is a valuable resource. Much of its content reflects its mission: to grapple smartly with the conundrum of legitimizing methodologies aimed at improving ultimately subjective re-orderings of constitutive personality and personality’s (i.e. persons,) functioning. This is, of course, a … Continue reading
RECENT VISIONS
I’ve been thinking about online communities oriented around exploration, learning, and practice. Carol Higgison, editor of the Online Tutoring E-Book Tutorial hasn’t been thinking about those modalities, yet, her OTe at OTIS (Scotland) has lots of conceptual goods which translate … Continue reading
FEED ME MORE
We have come to this world to accept it, not merely to know it. We may become powerful by knowledge, but we attain fullness by sympathy. The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes … Continue reading
MAKING REASONS FOR THE THINGS TO HAPPEN TO
Whereas my evil twin the philosopher likes it complex and confusing, his counterpart, well, she comes from the Keep It Simple Stupid school of spiritual development. The following article reminds me of letting loose students in a bookstore, or library, … Continue reading
Posted in adult learning, education
Tagged adult learning, education, experiential learning, self-education, tools for living
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