After Tyler

 

(Kleibard)

Schwab

Eisner

Greene

 

Pinar

 

Apple

Grumet

 

Things to do in working on your project:

 

  1. Can you make a grid to formulate objectives as Tyler suggests?
  2. Can you articulate a pedagogic creed (see Dewey for possible section titles and topics, Greene for others) and use it as your philosophical screen?
  3. Can you think about the role of evaluation and assessment?
  4. Use Eisner, Schwab and Kleibard to think about how objectives may be interfering with your project goals. What other approaches can you take?
  5. Consider the issues raised by Apple and Grumet.
  6. Return to Schwab: what does “the practical” mean for what you are doing for your project? What is the “enduring problem” that you are addressing?
  7. Return to Greene: How does your project suggest that you are “condemned to choose”? that you are “doing philosophy and creating a world”?

 

 

 

  1. Pick four to five of the authors we have read. Together in your group, imagine if they met: are they on a talk show panel? Phoning in to Larry King? At a board meeting? At a policy-setting meeting? Conducting a professional development workshop? Appearing as guests on The Simpsons? Write a script or improvise a conversation they would have about the ways you have formulated your projects and the kinds of advice they would give about what to do the rest of the semester.