This document summarizes the agenda for Meeting 2 on October 3, 2012. It includes:
- Catching up on the previous week's in-class work, videos by Sir Ken Robinson and Professor Yong Zhao, and activities. Attendees are asked to recall what they remember and any connections made.
- An introduction to readings by Paulo Freire from 1970 on cultural action for freedom and the adult literacy process. Key concepts are highlighted.
- A link to a video interview with Paulo Freire and additional review materials available in THINK2012.
- A link to a video of Yrjo Engestr旦m answering a question about activity theory.
- A summary of
2. Catching up
Last weeks in-class work
(two videos Sir Ken Robinson, Professor
Yong Zhao; two activities)
What do you still remember?
What connections did you make?
Anything you want to pursue in detail?
Jot down your thoughts. Summaries.
Commentaries.
(dont forget to date stamp it!)
3. Freire, P. (1970). The Adult Literacy process as cultural
action for freedom. Harvard Educational Review, 40 (2),
205-22.
praxis
mechanistic explanation, mechanistic action
ad-miration
codification, decodification
problematization
dialogue
education is pedagogy of knowing
utopian pedagogy
conscientization
banking model of education
4. Freire, P. (1970). The Adult Literacy process as cultural
action for freedom. Harvard Educational Review, 40 (2),
205-22.
as language is impossible without
thought, and language and thought are
impossible without the world to which they
refer, the human word is more than the
mere vocabulary it is word and action. (p.
212)
5. Paulo Freire - An Incredible Conversation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFWjnkFypFA
Additional material (in THINK2012)
Freire, Paulo (1970). Cultural Action For Freedom. Harvard
Educational Review and Center for the Study of Development
and Social Change: Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Review by Tamara Oyola (UCLA)
http://schugurensky.faculty.asu.edu/freire/to.html
Papert, S. (Fall, 1993). Obsolete skill set: The 3 Rs literacy
andletteracyin the media ages. Wired Magazine.
6. Engestr旦m. Yrjo - Answer a question regarding
Activity Theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAMlJU4HW3Q
7. Resnick, L. B. (1987). Learning in school and out.
Educational Researcher, 16 (9), 13-20.
How school learning differs from other
learning
Individual cognition in school vs. shared
cognition
Pure mentation in school vs. tool
manipulation outside
Symbol manipulation in school vs.
contextualized reasoning outside school.
Generalized learning in school vs.
situation-specific competencies outside
8. Resnick, L. B. (1987). Learning in school and out.
Educational Researcher, 16 (9), 13-20.
What is schooling for?
What can we do about it?
9. Next step:
Readings for next
week
Intentions paper due
Thoughts on
Encountering
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