Carrie’s TEBlog

Here is a podcast of my presentation. The feed address for my podcast is http://feeds.feedburner.com/CarriesTeblog

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            Throughout my readings for my TE 302 class, I have begun to reshape some of my beliefs about teaching and strengthen my existing ideas. The perfect way to describe my ideas of teaching would fall under the pragmatism philosophy (Ornstein, 2000). I believe in problem solving in any learning experience and using the scientific [...]

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Rob brings up some interesting things in his response to the Labaree article. He notices why a goal of education would be Democratic Equality. All schools are different and get different benefits. Along with that not every teacher is the same. This is why I had said to some extent education should be unified. I [...]

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After reading the article “Colleges Awash in Applications,” I was intrigued by the number of students applying to colleges. Since so many graduating seniors are applying to college, the number of accepted students at many colleges is going down. More and more seniors are being denied access to many colleges. They claim it is because [...]

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After reading Labaree I completely saw how the educational system was set up the way he said it was. I never realized that there were such concrete goals in education. I see though now how it is set up to try to achieve democratic equality, social efficiency, and social mobility. It just amazes me how [...]

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I agree with Amy that critical pedagogy and thinking are quite similar. I do believe that one cannot exist without the other. I think that a lot of critical pedagogy depends on the basis of critical thinking. Critical pedagogy is about taking critical thinking’s drive to find evidence and reasoning to explain the world and [...]

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