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Doing Dewey, Carol Rodgers Jul 2016

Doing Dewey, Carol Rodgers

Occasional Paper Series

In this article, I describe and analyze my experience as a teacher of, and a teacher who does, Dewey. In the process I hope to draw a picture of what it means to strive for integrity between theory and practice. I talk about why it matters to work from a theory of education, especially in an age where “clinical practice” is vaunted and theory is viewed as expendable, even as a slightly shameful waste of time. I focus on particular Deweyan principles, primarily the principle of reflection, and illustrate how that theory manifests itself in my practice. I …


Global Childhoods, Asian Lifeworlds: After School Time In Hong Kong, Nicola Yelland, Sandy Muspratt, Caja Gilbert Jul 2016

Global Childhoods, Asian Lifeworlds: After School Time In Hong Kong, Nicola Yelland, Sandy Muspratt, Caja Gilbert

Occasional Paper Series

Explores home spaces through a cultural lens, asking questions about eastern and western perceptions of home learning.


Theorising Through Visual & Verbal Metaphors: Challenging Narrow Depictions Of Children And Learning, Sophie Rudolph Jun 2016

Theorising Through Visual & Verbal Metaphors: Challenging Narrow Depictions Of Children And Learning, Sophie Rudolph

Occasional Paper Series

Through a rich description of how young children use drawing to express their emerging understandings of the world, Rudolph disrupts narrow definitions of the child as learner.


Nature Preschools: Putting Nature At The Heart Of Early Childhood Education, Ken Finch, Patti Bailie Jun 2016

Nature Preschools: Putting Nature At The Heart Of Early Childhood Education, Ken Finch, Patti Bailie

Occasional Paper Series

Describes nature preschools as places that go beyond the typical preschool teachings within the classroom. Activities at nature preschools may include child-centered outdoor investigations, unstructured play and exploration in rich outdoor settings, large, natural areas to explore, and special programs that might include making maple syrup or apple cider, meeting live animals, and discovering pond life.


Discovering Place-Based Education In The Foothills Of The Himalayas, Monimalika Day, Doug Hernandez Jun 2016

Discovering Place-Based Education In The Foothills Of The Himalayas, Monimalika Day, Doug Hernandez

Occasional Paper Series

The central feature of this paper is a portrait of a teacher conducting lessons near a pond in a remote village in the foothills of the Himalayas. It describes how the teacher provides opportunities for her young students to explore their natural environment and helps them to connect with their place. It is essential to note that her story represents the efforts of many other preschool teachers working with Prakriti.


Place-Based Education: (Re)Integrating Ecology & Economy, Mark T. Kissling, Angela M. Calabrese Barton Jun 2016

Place-Based Education: (Re)Integrating Ecology & Economy, Mark T. Kissling, Angela M. Calabrese Barton

Occasional Paper Series

Describes the relationship between ecology and economy in place-based education.


Curtain Up: Place-Based Teaching & Learning In The New York City Theater District, Peggy Mcnamara, Bryan Andes Jun 2016

Curtain Up: Place-Based Teaching & Learning In The New York City Theater District, Peggy Mcnamara, Bryan Andes

Occasional Paper Series

In this article we describe and analyze the process first grade teachers used as they guided their students to investigate a place in their school community called “the Theater District,” an important industry in the neighborhood.


Reclaiming The Promise Of Place: An Interview With David Greenwood, Roberta Altman Jun 2016

Reclaiming The Promise Of Place: An Interview With David Greenwood, Roberta Altman

Occasional Paper Series

David Greenwood (formerly Gruenewald) is a Canada research chair in environmental education at Lakehead University, where he also directs the Centre for Place and Sustainability Studies. He has published widely on critical place-based, environmental, and sustainability education. His current interests are to continue to make connections between the big ideas of place and sustainability and other big ideas and experiences in the arts, mindfulness, embodiment, and being in the world.


Introduction: Claiming The Promise Of Place-Based Education, Roberta Altman, Susan Stires, Susan Weseen Jun 2016

Introduction: Claiming The Promise Of Place-Based Education, Roberta Altman, Susan Stires, Susan Weseen

Occasional Paper Series

Each of the papers in Claiming the Promise of Place-based Education offers a much-needed antidote to the forces that disconnect us from the places we teach, learn, and live in. Taken together, they provide an opportunity to reflect on the power of place in education. We invite you to enjoy the fresh air that the authors of this issue of Occasional Papers have brought with them to share with you.


The Social Construction Of Teachers' Practical Knowledge In The Advisement Conference Group: Report Of A Case Study, Gail Hirsch Feb 2016

The Social Construction Of Teachers' Practical Knowledge In The Advisement Conference Group: Report Of A Case Study, Gail Hirsch

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

The work described here concerns the phenomenon of teachers' practical knowledge and the dynamic processes involved in its articulation and development within the local context of the teacher education experience as these were examined in a longitudinal case study, Telling Tales Out of School (Hirsch, 1987).


A Theoretical Framework For Advisement, Dorothy Bloomfield Feb 2016

A Theoretical Framework For Advisement, Dorothy Bloomfield

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

Describes the theory and practice of advisement, offering a glimpse of the developmental facet of advisement and the relationship involved between advisor and advisee.


Advisement: From Bank Street To Binghamton, Margaret Yonemura Feb 2016

Advisement: From Bank Street To Binghamton, Margaret Yonemura

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

The author describes her experience of adapting the Bank Street advisement model to a new master's program in early childhood/elementary education at the State University of New York at Binghamton.


The Advisement Process In School Reform, Esther Rosenfeld Feb 2016

The Advisement Process In School Reform, Esther Rosenfeld

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

As the new Teacher Director at Central Park East II elementary school, the author chose to adapt Bank Street's advisement model to the staff development work at her school. She suggests that the process may be appropriately applied more broadly in efforts at school reform.


Developing Collaborative Leaders: Reflections On Leadership Advisement At Bank Street College, Lonnetta Gaines Feb 2016

Developing Collaborative Leaders: Reflections On Leadership Advisement At Bank Street College, Lonnetta Gaines

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

Describes the educational leadership advisement process in its role in preparing collaborative leaders.


Storytelling In Advisement, Nina Jaffe Feb 2016

Storytelling In Advisement, Nina Jaffe

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

As a folklore educator and storyteller, the author considers the role of storytelling as it occurs in advisement, not as performance art but as the primary role of communication in group meetings and individual conferences.


Advisement And Collaboration, Maureen A. Hornung, Ariel Katz, Claire Wurtzel Feb 2016

Advisement And Collaboration, Maureen A. Hornung, Ariel Katz, Claire Wurtzel

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

Describes a collaboration between two Bank Street College advisees who had different strengths and levels of experience within the classroom.


Advisement: The Journey For Preservice Students, Maritza B. Macdonald Feb 2016

Advisement: The Journey For Preservice Students, Maritza B. Macdonald

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

Describes the characteristics of advisement in the Preservice Program at Bank Street College of Education within the context of nine field-related issues, which seem to be predominant in the professional development of preservice students.


The Early Years Of The Advisement Program At Bank Street College, Claudia Lewis Feb 2016

The Early Years Of The Advisement Program At Bank Street College, Claudia Lewis

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

Explains the early development of the advisement process at Bank Street College of Education, focusing on the training program for the advisors began by Dr. Barbara Biber.


Spreading Out Its Roots: Bank Street Advisement And The Education Of A Teacher, William Ayers Feb 2016

Spreading Out Its Roots: Bank Street Advisement And The Education Of A Teacher, William Ayers

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

Describes the intricate and life shaping lessons learned by the author during his tenure as a graduate student at Bank Street College.


Teacher: Being And Becoming, Edna K. Shapiro Feb 2016

Teacher: Being And Becoming, Edna K. Shapiro

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

Describes an approach to teacher education that highlights aspects that have been treated as peripheral in most discussions of the education of teachers. Developed in the Graduate School of Education Bank Street College, this program, known as advisement, has retained its basic structure for more than four decades, although its rationale and practice have evolved and changed.


Front Matter And Forward, Frank Pignatelli, Susanna W. Flaum Feb 2016

Front Matter And Forward, Frank Pignatelli, Susanna W. Flaum

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

Explains the issue's focus on the advisory program at the Bank Street College Graduate School of Education.


Thinking Together: The Value Of Discussion In The Five Year Old's Classroom, Elizabeth C. Radens, Susan Schwimmer Jan 2016

Thinking Together: The Value Of Discussion In The Five Year Old's Classroom, Elizabeth C. Radens, Susan Schwimmer

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

Illustrates a kindergarten classroom where the teacher places a high value upon questions - child or adult generated. Discussion is the centerpiece of the program.


Social Change And Social Reality: Some Implications For Social Studies, Patricia Minuchin Jan 2016

Social Change And Social Reality: Some Implications For Social Studies, Patricia Minuchin

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

Discusses social change and current realities, focusing on the immediate social environment, the modern family, the children themselves, and some implications for the social studies curriculum.


Front Matter, Bank Street College Of Education Jan 2016

Front Matter, Bank Street College Of Education

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

No abstract provided.


Becoming A Teacher: The Development Of Thinking About Knowledge, Learning, And The Self, Nancy Nager Jan 2016

Becoming A Teacher: The Development Of Thinking About Knowledge, Learning, And The Self, Nancy Nager

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

Explores the epistemological assumptions that underlie different models of teaching and will discuss the ways in which the advisement process at Bank Street College aspires to prepare teachers to facilitate rather than get in the way of education.


"I Want To Know Why" Or Tolerance For Ambiguity In Education, Leah Levinger Jan 2016

"I Want To Know Why" Or Tolerance For Ambiguity In Education, Leah Levinger

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

Looks at graduate teacher education within the lens of theories of psychology, such as Piaget and Freud.


Computers: Will Their Magic Survive Schooling?, Barbara Dubitsky Jan 2016

Computers: Will Their Magic Survive Schooling?, Barbara Dubitsky

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

Looks at computers as a tool in classroom learning.


Must Schools Hinder Education?, Lorraine Monroe Jan 2016

Must Schools Hinder Education?, Lorraine Monroe

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

A brief essay which explores the differences between schooling and education.


Choosing Priorities For Young Children, Nancy Balaban Jan 2016

Choosing Priorities For Young Children, Nancy Balaban

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

Discusses the way childhood has changed and the way adults, including teachers, are reacting.


Front Matter, Bank Street College Of Education Jan 2016

Front Matter, Bank Street College Of Education

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education

No abstract provided.