Schoolishness

Schoolishness

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  • Author: Susan D. Blum
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • ISBN: 150177428X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 342

In Schoolishness, Susan D. Blum continues her journey as an anthropologist and educator. The author defines "schoolishness" as educational practices that emphasize packaged "learning," unimaginative teaching, uniformity, constant evaluation by others, arbitrary forms, predetermined time, and artificial boundaries, resulting in personal and educational alienation, dependence, and dread. Drawing on critical, progressive, and feminist pedagogy in conversation with the anthropology of learning, and building on the insights of her two previous books Blum proposes less-schoolish ways of learning in ten dimensions, to lessen the mismatch between learning in school and learning in the wild. She asks, if learning is our human "superpower," why is it so difficult to accomplish in school? In every chapter Blum compares the fake learning of schoolishness with successful examples of authentic learning, including in her own courses, which she scrutinizes critically. Schoolishness is not a pedagogical how-to book, but a theory-based phenomenology of institutional education. It has moral, psychological, and educational arguments against schoolishness that, as Blum notes, "rhymes with foolishness."


Raising Free People

Raising Free People

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  • Author: Akilah S. Richards
  • Publisher: PM Press
  • ISBN: 1629638498
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 176

No one is immune to the byproducts of compulsory schooling and standardized testing. And while reform may be a worthy cause for some, it is not enough for countless others still trying to navigate the tyranny of what schooling has always been. Raising Free People argues that we need to build and work within systems truly designed for any human to learn, grow, socialize, and thrive, regardless of age, ability, background, or access to money. Families and conscious organizations across the world are healing generations of school wounds by pivoting into self-directed, intentional community-building, and Raising Free People shows you exactly how unschooling can help facilitate this process. Individual experiences influence our approach to parenting and education, so we need more than the rules, tools, and “bad adult” guilt trips found in so many parenting and education books. We need to reach behind our behaviors to seek and find our triggers; to examine and interrupt the ways that social issues such as colonization still wreak havoc on our ability to trust ourselves, let alone children. Raising Free People explores examples of the transition from school or homeschooling to unschooling, how single parents and people facing financial challenges unschool successfully, and the ways unschooling allows us to address generational trauma and unlearn the habits we mindlessly pass on to children. In these detailed and unabashed stories and insights, Richards examines the ways that her relationships to blackness, decolonization, and healing work all combine to form relationships and enable community-healing strategies rooted in an unschooling practice. This is how millions of families center human connection, practice clear and honest communication, and raise children who do not grow up to feel that they narrowly survived their childhoods.


Proceedings, Abstracts of Lectures and a Brief Report of the Discussions of the National Teachers' Association, the National Association of School Superintendents and the American Normal School Association

Proceedings, Abstracts of Lectures and a Brief Report of the Discussions of the National Teachers' Association, the National Association of School Superintendents and the American Normal School Association

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  • Author: National Education Association of the United States
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  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 842


"I Love Learning; I Hate School"

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  • Author: Susan D. Blum
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • ISBN: 1501703404
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 356

Frustrated by her students’ performance, her relationships with them, and her own daughter’s problems in school, Susan D. Blum, a professor of anthropology, set out to understand why her students found their educational experience at a top-tier institution so profoundly difficult and unsatisfying. Through her research and in conversations with her students, she discovered a troubling mismatch between the goals of the university and the needs of students. In "I Love Learning; I Hate School," Blum tells two intertwined but inseparable stories: the results of her research into how students learn contrasted with the way conventional education works, and the personal narrative of how she herself was transformed by this understanding. Blum concludes that the dominant forms of higher education do not match the myriad forms of learning that help students—people in general—master meaningful and worthwhile skills and knowledge. Students are capable of learning huge amounts, but the ways higher education is structured often leads them to fail to learn. More than that, it leads to ill effects. In this critique of higher education, infused with anthropological insights, Blum explains why so much is going wrong and offers suggestions for how to bring classroom learning more in line with appropriate forms of engagement. She challenges our system of education and argues for a "reintegration of learning with life."


Journal of Proceeding and Addresses

Journal of Proceeding and Addresses

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  • Author: National Education Association of the United States
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 114

Vols. for 1866-70 include Proceedings of the American Normal School Association; 1866-69 include Proceedings of the National Association of School Superintendents; 1870 includes Addresses and journal of proceedings of the Central College Association.


Journal of Proceedings, and Addresses

Journal of Proceedings, and Addresses

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  • Author: National Educational Association (U.S.)
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  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 940


The Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Educational Association

The Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Educational Association

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  • Author: National Educational Association (U.S.)
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  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 844


Journal of Proceedings and Addresses

Journal of Proceedings and Addresses

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  • Author: National Education Association of the United States
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  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 942


Sociolinguistics in the Low Countries

Sociolinguistics in the Low Countries

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  • Author: Kas Deprez
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027279926
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 369

This volume contains the papers read at the Second Sociolinguistics Conference of the Association Belge de Linguistique Appliquee (Belgian Association of Applied Linguistics) that was held at the University of Antwerp on the in May, 1980. The papers are grouped around two topics: 'Language and Social Class' and 'Language Attitudes'. The whole is preceded by an introductory article by R. Van Hout in which he presents the Netherlandic language area, describes how sociolinguistics is developing in this area and briefly discusses the essence of each paper.


Journal of Education and School World

Journal of Education and School World

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  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 516