Tonight I continued to read and think about Green's ideas of moral conscience. I read two articles; I want to focus my ideas here primarily on Kaufmann's. Kaufmann's article is more a review than a critique of Green's book. Since I haven't read the entire book (just the article "The Formation of Conscience in an … Continue reading Kaufmann on Green (more thoughts on becoming)

Today I was introduced to the writings of Thomas Green, a professor of education at Syracuse University who studies the philosophy of moral development. He views the educational development of conscience as "the elaboration and continuing juxtaposition of the different voices of conscience as craft, membership, sacrifice, memory, and imagination" (p. 1). By conscience Green … Continue reading Thomas Green on Moral Conscience

Today I met with Dr. Graham and with Rebekah Westrup, an undergraduate who will be doing research with us. She has already begun to compile all the existing articles on blended learning. This will be a treasure trove! Over the past week, my assignment was to look into what Latter-day Saint (Mormon) doctrine and scriptures … Continue reading Thoughts on Becoming

Last semester Dr. Gibbons suggested that I read Apprenticeship in Thinking by Barbara Rogoff as I was working on my metaphor of instruction as conversation. I read a bzillion things for that paper, but never got to the book!  Now Dr. Graham has found that Rogoff has written about "participatory appropriation" as a process of … Continue reading Rogoff on Participatory Appropriation

I have read a couple of interesting articles written by occupational therapists on the subjects of doing, being, and becoming.  Ann Wilcock published an article in 1998 (the citation below is actually for a reprint published a year later) arguing that "a dynamic balance between doing and being is central to healthy living" and that … Continue reading Occupational Therapy on Doing-Being-Becoming

Chapter 1, Question 3: Which do you prefer, an external or internal evaluator? Why? As a teacher I kind of chafed when I was evaluated by an administrator who was out-of-touch (district level) or not a content expert (principal level); both of these I considered “outside” evaluations, despite the fact that we were connected by … Continue reading Internal vs External Evaluation

I am taking IPT 661 (Evaluation) from Dr. Randy Davies this term.  We are allowed to choose which assignments we think we will most learn from.  I have chosen to write on questions posed by the textbook (Program Evaluation: Alternative Approaches and Practical Guidelines by Fitpatrick, Sanders, and Worthen). One of the questions asked at … Continue reading Formative vs Summative Evaluations