English Journal, Vol. 101, No. 4, March 2012
My column at EJ is being rebooted:
Showing posts with label NCTE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NCTE. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Susan Ohanian's Testing Outrages (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)
Susan Ohanian's Testing Outrages (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)
NCTE Allegiance to the Common Core Is Burying Us
NCTE Allegiance to the Common Core Is Burying Us
Monday, January 23, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
Monday, November 28, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
CALL for submissions: Speaking Truth to Power (EJ)
Speaking Truth to Power (English Journal)
Column Editor: P. L. Thomas
“If education cannot do everything, there is something fundamental that it can do. In other words, if education is not the key to social transformation, neither is it simply meant to reproduce the dominant ideology. . . .The freedom that moves us, that makes us take risks, is being subjugated to a process of standardization of formulas, models against which we are evaluated. . . .We are speaking of that invisible power of alienating domestication, which attains a degree of extraordinary efficiency in what I have been calling the bureaucratizing of the mind.” (Freire, 1998, Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage, pp. 110, 111)
Twenty-first century education in the U.S. has included a bureaucratic muting of teacher professionalism, autonomy, and voice. Additional features of current reforms involve scripting the ideas and expression of students through external accountability measures, standards, and high-stakes testing.
This column seeks to explore the experiences and possibilities that arise when educators speak Truth to power. It is also intended to be an avenue for teachers to speak Truth to power through teacher narratives about the “the bureaucratizing of the mind,” about best practice in critical literacy against scripted and tested literacy, and about creating classrooms that invite students to discover, embrace, and develop their own voices and empowerment.
Submit an electronic Word file attached to your email to the column editor, P. L. Thomas, at paul.thomas@furman.edu. Contributors are encouraged to query the column editor and share drafts of column ideas as part of the submission process.
DUE DATES
1/15/13
3/15/13
5/15/13
7/15/13
9/15/13
11/15/13
Column Editor: P. L. Thomas
“If education cannot do everything, there is something fundamental that it can do. In other words, if education is not the key to social transformation, neither is it simply meant to reproduce the dominant ideology. . . .The freedom that moves us, that makes us take risks, is being subjugated to a process of standardization of formulas, models against which we are evaluated. . . .We are speaking of that invisible power of alienating domestication, which attains a degree of extraordinary efficiency in what I have been calling the bureaucratizing of the mind.” (Freire, 1998, Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage, pp. 110, 111)
Twenty-first century education in the U.S. has included a bureaucratic muting of teacher professionalism, autonomy, and voice. Additional features of current reforms involve scripting the ideas and expression of students through external accountability measures, standards, and high-stakes testing.
This column seeks to explore the experiences and possibilities that arise when educators speak Truth to power. It is also intended to be an avenue for teachers to speak Truth to power through teacher narratives about the “the bureaucratizing of the mind,” about best practice in critical literacy against scripted and tested literacy, and about creating classrooms that invite students to discover, embrace, and develop their own voices and empowerment.
Submit an electronic Word file attached to your email to the column editor, P. L. Thomas, at paul.thomas@furman.edu. Contributors are encouraged to query the column editor and share drafts of column ideas as part of the submission process.
DUE DATES
1/15/13
3/15/13
5/15/13
7/15/13
9/15/13
11/15/13
Monday, September 5, 2011
Schools Matter: Mathews Turns on National Standards? (Sort of) pt. 2
Schools Matter: Mathews Turns on National Standards? (Sort of) pt....: About national standards WaPo's Jay Mathews is now saying, "It sounds great. But it won’t help and won’t work," in "Good riddance to new nat...
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