Scholar, activist, and educator Paulo Freire was one of the first thinkers to fully appreciate the relationships between education, politics, imperialism, and liberation. This volume is a testament ...to the works of Paulo Freire in the field of Education as well as the life of the man: a "story of courage, hardship, perseverance, and unyielding belief in the power of love." In this comprehensive collection, prominent intellectuals including Noam Chomsky and Donald Macedo reflect on Freire's "politics of liberation" and add important new dimensions to the revolutionary, innovative ideas that Freire bequeathed to a generation much in need.
Instructional strategies derived from the concept of mastery learning and cooperative learning were applied to 104 undergraduate social science students enrolled in three sections of a required ...course at a Midwestern university to investigate if cooperative, mastery, and combined mastery/cooperative learning conditions impact undergraduate students' academic self-concepts and academic achievement outcomes. Results indicated significant effects for the combined mastery/cooperative learning condition. Using a more sensitive design, future research should examine the interrelationships among learning environments, academic outcomes, affective outcomes, and motivation.
The assertive discipline approach to classroom management (Canter, L., & Canter, M. Assertive Discipline: A Take Charge Approach for Today's Educator, Santa Monica: Canter & Associates, 1976) is ...summarized, & its basic tenets are compared to the ideal-democratic goal of education to teach students to question & to make choices, rather than to blindly follow an authoritarian structure. A review of the literature reveals a lack of systematic investigation of the program's effectiveness; also, most supportive literature is based on perceptions rather than on research. In Assertive Discipline: A Response, Lee Canter (Lee Canter & Associates, Santa Monica, Calif) maintains that Render, Padilla, & Krank only offered their opinions without any substantiating research of their own, investigated the literature selectively, & were led to erroneous conclusions by using abstracts rather than articles. The assertive discipline program is based on & validated by research. In Assertive Discipline: A Rejoinder, the authors reaffirm that: the available published literature did not support the effectiveness claims; & perceptions are not the same as evidence researched in student outcomes & behavior. M. Malas
This book contains 15 chapters, each by different authors, commenting and expanding on the educational philosophy and work of Paulo Freire. The following are included: "Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of ...Possibility" (Peter McLaren); "Studying the Media: What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream" (Noam Chomsky); "Scientism as a Form of Racism" (Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo); "Liberating the Critical in Critical Theory: Marcuse, Marx, and a Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Alienation, Art, and the Humanities" (Charles Reitz); "Multiculturalism and the Politics of Nationalism in the Global Age" (Henry Giroux); "On 'Having Differences' and 'Being Different': From a Dialogue of Difference to the Private Language of Indifference" (George David Miller, Mark Roelof Eleveld); "Politics of Explanation: Ethical Questions in the Production of Knowledge" (Thomas Heaney); "Upstream in the Mainstream: Pedagogy against the Current" (Robert Bahruth, Stanley Steiner); "The Prairie Is Wide: Conrack Comes to 'The Rez'" (David Gabbard); "Teaching in Our Underwear: The Liabilities of Whiteness in the Multiracial Classroom" (Maryann Dickar); "Authority Is Not a Luxury: 'Courageous Dialogue' in the Feminist Classroom" (Kimberly Kay Gunter); "Authentic Multiculturalism and Nontraditional Students: Voices from the 'Contact Zone'" (Juan Flores); "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action: The Ideologies of Gender and Peer Response Sessions Perceived by a Teacher-Researcher" (Nancie Burns-McCoy); "Cultural Studies (Alone) Won't Do It: Strategic Reform of Academic Departments in the University" (Scott Shepard); and "Synthesizing Gramsci and Freire: Possibilities for a Theory of Transformative Adult Education" (Peter Mayo). The chapters include reference lists, and the book is indexed. (KC)
Scholar, activist, and educator Paulo Freire was one of the first thinkers to fully appreciate the relationships between education, politics, imperialism, and liberation. This volume is a testament ...to the works of Paulo Freire in the field of Education as well as the life of the man: a "story of courage, hardship, perseverance, and unyielding belief in the power of love." In this comprehensive collection, prominent intellectuals including Noam Chomsky and Donald Macedo reflect on Freire's "politics of liberation" and add important new dimensions to the revolutionary, innovative ideas that Freire bequeathed to a generation much in need.
The claims of Canter reported in the Oct 1988 issue of "Educational Leadership" that studies provide strong support for the effectiveness of Assertive Discipline are disputed. Suggestions that the ...studies were generated primarily by beginning researchers and no strongly generalized data have resulted are presented.
Inclusion and Discipline Referrals Krank, H. Mark; Moon, Charles E; Render, Gary F
The Rural educator (Fort Collins, Colo.),
2002, Letnik:
24, Številka:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
Discipline referrals for special needs students and other students in a rural K-8 school were examined before and after the school shifted to inclusive-school policies and practices. In the year ...after the shift, discipline referrals declined sharply for special needs students and slightly for other students, reflecting positive social outcomes of the changed environment. (Contains 25 references.) (SV)
I "played" so much at being a teacher when I was an adolescent that when I taught my first classes in an orientation course at the Osvaldo Cruz School of Recife, in the 1940s, I had a hard time ...distinguishing between the imaginary professor and the real one and I was happy in both worlds.
Scientism as a Form of Racism Freire, Paulo; Macedo, Donaldo
Freirean Pedagogy, Praxis, and Possibilities,
2000, 1999
Book Chapter
If it were not for the amnesia prevalent within U.S. society, it would be very easy to understand that the present cruel and frontal attack on affirmative action, immigrants, and unwed mothers and so ...forth is a mere continuation of a historical context where Blacks were "scientifically" relegated to a subhuman existence that, in turn, justified the irrationality of their alienating reality as slaves. After the abolition of slavery and with it the eradication of laws that protected the existence of slavery, the dominant white ideology resorted to "science" as a means not only to demonize but also to dehumanize Blacks in the United States. These race-based ideological mechanisms were very prominent during the Reconstruction, as succinctly described by a Black historian of the era, W.E.B. DuBois:
