tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59120690996924523042024-03-14T04:40:31.439+10:30Educational MeanderingsRobert Cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11438991301129448645noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912069099692452304.post-30678070706975201182017-06-22T11:18:00.000+09:302017-06-22T15:21:02.300+09:30Book Review<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>A
Teacher’s Reflection Book: Exercises, Stories, Invitations.</i></span></b></h3>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jean Koh Peters and Mark Weisberg, Durham, North Carolina,
Carolina Academic Press, 2011, 199 pp., US$30.00 (paperback), ISBN
978-1-59460-942-8.</span><br />
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XJmbu8LU-SI/WUn33RY1tTI/AAAAAAAAAaw/JMnD6DB3m_A_l3LaSe4Rd8PQcVaHLfHQwCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_1608.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1027" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XJmbu8LU-SI/WUn33RY1tTI/AAAAAAAAAaw/JMnD6DB3m_A_l3LaSe4Rd8PQcVaHLfHQwCLcBGAs/s320/IMG_1608.jpg" width="205" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This excellent book should be part of every
teacher’s professional library. It is a book pitched at all teachers in higher
education and, through the processes of reflection, a book that advances important
principles of good teaching practice that are usually introduced all too briefly
in the basic texts on teaching in higher education. It is a book that simultaneously
challenges and then guides us to be better teachers through the process of
reflecting where ‘... teachers remain learners, learning from their rich experience
with students, with the academy and with their scholarship’ (p.26). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Several descriptive words come to mind when
reading this book. It is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">polite</i> and
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gentle </i>book. Politeness is revealed
in the book’s sub-title – ‘Exercises, stories, invitations’. It is the idea of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">invitation</i> that characterizes much of
the book. It is not didactic but rather invites us to use the book and the
processes described in it in ways that work best for us. It is also an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">accessible</i>
book. Most refreshingly, it is not burdened with unnecessary technical jargon
and convoluted language that cripples too much writing in education today
and makes learning inaccessible to many, particularly for those readers whose
first language is not English.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The authors, Jean Koh Peters and Mark
Weisberg are both Professors of Law, she from Yale and he from Queen’s
University in Canada. Both have a strong, practical interest and commitment to
teaching that is well demonstrated throughout the book, none the least from
accounts of reflection retreats they have led for university teachers. It is in
these retreats that this book is grounded and from which it has drawn its
inspiration.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The six chapters are designed to help
teachers construct for themselves ‘mini-retreats’ for reflection that they can
work into their own lives. The book follows a clear, logical sequence that is
firmly anchored in teaching and students rather than in the concept of reflection
itself. I found this focus on teaching and students one of the most appealing
characteristics of the book and one that leads to its very practical and
relevant character.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chapter 1 addresses the question ‘How does
a teacher say hello?’ The authors point out that the many hellos we say – when
we set the stage for teaching or when we meet students – send out clear signals
of welcome or impatience, engagement or apathy, or of simply getting down to
the business of learning. To help the reader with the importance of saying
hello in teaching, the book then provides examples of hellos and helps us,
through a series of questions, to reflect on the messages we send in our
hellos.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chapter 2 describes what the authors mean
by reflection with suggestions for practice. Chapter 3 considers the skill of
listening and draws the important distinction between the critical and often
superficial listening so common in academic life with the deeper, open and less
judgmental listening that is sorely needed in reflecting on good teaching and
in our personal relationships. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The title
of Chapter 4 asks ‘Who are our students and how and what do they learn in the
classroom?’ and invites us to reflect on our own experiences as students. Chapter
4 goes some way beyond reflection into consideration of ways of facilitating
better learning and it does so in ways that obliges us to reflect on our
practice as teachers. Finally, Chapter 5, ‘The teacher and vocation’, reflects
on some of deepest and most private fears of being a teacher, such as the fear
of failure and appearing foolish.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
teacher’s reflection book</i> is a very practical and personal <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">guidebook</i> and a rich source of
perspectives from which we are assisted to reflect on our teaching and on our
personal lives more generally.</span></div>
<br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">By
way of conclusion it is important to return to the purposes of the book to
assess its achievements. These purposes are to assist teachers in reflection
events, either alone or with colleagues, by providing materials for prompting
reflection. In my view, these purposes have been achieved very well indeed. I
repeat my belief that this book deserves to be in every teacher’s library.</span><br />
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Robert Cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11438991301129448645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912069099692452304.post-17534641419554550522017-06-16T17:48:00.000+09:302017-06-22T15:30:51.799+09:30Acronymophilia: Another Disease of Development<h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Acronymophilia is a disorder suffered by technical and professional writers. It is characterised by an excess reliance on acronyms and abbreviations.</span><br />
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d9m3nApFVUw/WUnwqAE4kOI/AAAAAAAAAag/wc-80djvfWA9nzTDzsXvMrRkg-BsWtlsgCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_0010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1171" data-original-width="1586" height="236" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d9m3nApFVUw/WUnwqAE4kOI/AAAAAAAAAag/wc-80djvfWA9nzTDzsXvMrRkg-BsWtlsgCLcBGAs/s320/IMG_0010.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In international development work there is a huge number of acronyms of which UNICEF, UNESCO, USAID, DFAT, OECD and JICA are just a few.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In Australian education we have DUD, GRR, GREAT and NAPLAN. If you do not know what these mean, Google NSW Education Department acronyms for an explanation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">S</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ome acronyms seem to evolve on their own accord. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They seem to descend on their authors with an</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> inevitability suggesting that the hapless author has lost control and suffers from acronymophilia. Either that or some authors are stunningly naïve! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To illustrate an extreme case of na</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ï</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">vety: the acronym considered here is taken from a scientific paper that begin with a consideration of carbon nanotubes, abbreviated as CNTs. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then someone comes along and develops copper nanotubes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of course, copper nanotubes need their own acronym, don't they? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now, proceeding from the chemical symbol for carbon, C, in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and then Cu for copper ... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yes! There you have it, the inevitable acronym for copper nanotubes! </span></div>
Robert Cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11438991301129448645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912069099692452304.post-45555722523647805752017-06-13T17:18:00.000+09:302017-06-22T16:30:07.271+09:30Five Diseases of Educational Development<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You probably think that educational
development is just some kind of theoretical idea, don’t you? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let me assure you
it has life as it goes about its work of improving the quality of education. It
experiences bouts of robust good health but also debilitating diseases like
other living organisms. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My first encounter with the idea of diseases in
education was from an illuminating paper in 1996 by Stephen Abrahamson in a
pioneering article titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Diseases of the
Curriculum</i>. Despite voluminous educational research since then, most diseases
remain today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What follows is a light-hearted discussion –
with serious intent – of diseases in the field of educational development. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. Narcissistic Personality Disorder</span></b></h4>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Those afflicted with Narcissistic
Personality Disorder are self-centred, exaggerate their talents, set
unrealistic goals and take advantage of others to achieve their goals. There is
an inability to recognize or identify with the viewpoints of others – particularly
those with specialist training and experience in the field of education such as
teachers. Parents of the ‘amazing’, ‘deserving’ and ‘beautiful’ children found
in most schools are chronic sufferers of a variation of NPD - Narcissistic <i>Parent</i> Disorder!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almost everyone knows exactly how to manage education
and how to teach. After all, they have attended school and know these things. Opinion
pieces in the press illustrate Narcissistic Personality Disorder in the startling
confidence journalists have in their own expertise in complex educational
issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ministers of Education suffer from this
disease. It is transmitted instantly when a prime minster or premier allocates
ministerial portfolios following an election. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Astonishing, isn’t it, that no
one has thought to do research into this instant acquisition of expertise?
Think of the time and money to be saved on education if we could exploit the
transmission of this disease. Instead of going to school and university,
students could be inoculated with Narcissistic Personality Disorder to become
instant experts. It adds a new dimension to the idea of the ‘inoculation theory
of education’ described by Postman and Weingartner in their book <i>Teaching
as a Subversive Activity</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is a disorder where people face special
challenges with the appropriate use of language. It is most commonly seen in the
convoluted writing in academic journals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Academics are often not clear in what they are
communicating in their professional writing. Many are consumed by the need to
use technical jargon. As my high school English teacher was fond of saying in
sarcastic overtones, the word ‘jargon’ derives from late-middle English where
it meant a twittering of birds or gibberish. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why do professional educators write such
convoluted material that renders their work completely inaccessible to so many?
At a time when attention is given to the idea of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">inclusion</i> in education, far too much written English <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">excludes</i> potential audiences. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3. Blurred Vision</span></b></h4>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sadly, Pragmatic Language Impairment coexists
with Blurred Vision. This results in individuals and organisations not knowing
where they are, where they are going, and completely incapable of asking for
directions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fifty years ago Blurred Vision was evident in
the absurd idea that if only all teachers would use the overhead projector properly,
the quality of education would improve. That disease appeared to have been
cured with the demise of the overhead projector. Then it reappeared with vigour
when PowerPoint, then personal computers, and now the Internet became powerful
technological forces in education. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A study by a team of researchers at Stanford
University came out a few years ago. The investigators wanted to figure out how
today’s university students were able to multitask so much more effectively
than adults. How do they manage to do it, the researchers asked? The answer,
they discovered – and this is by no means what they expected – is that they
don’t. They too suffer from Blurred Vision!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In Australia today Blurred Vision is also
apparent in the belief that spending more and more money on education will lead
to better outcomes – despite evidence to the contrary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4. Development Schizophrenia </span></b></h4>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Development Schizophrenia is the breakdown
between thought and behaviour and withdrawal from reality. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How often do we ring our hands when league
tables of children’s scores on international tests of mathematics, reading, and
science are published showing Australia’s alleged decline? But we still allow
curriculum time for these core subjects to be eroded by extra-curricular
activities and socially ‘important’ issues of the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5. Development Diarrhoea</span></b></h4>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Finally, Development Diarrhoea is another
disease of educational development worthy of mention. An incredible outpouring
of books, articles and reports illustrates this disease. Not content to treat Development
Diarrhoea, governments and educational institutions encourage it by demanding
ever more reviews and reports, pouring larger amounts of money at it, and even promoting
academic staff for the discharge of their efforts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The second Gonski review on education funding is a current
Australian example of this debilitating disease.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Humankind survived millennia without understanding
diseases and their effective treatment. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In today’s knowledge society it is no
longer acceptable to plough on without a sound, research-based understanding of
the processes of educational development. </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We seem to favour opinion over the evidence
we do have and to allow education to be subject to the demands of vocal and
powerful sectional interests at the expense of the longer-term interests of
society as a whole. Is this another example of the Narcissistic Personality
Disorder?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Robert Cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11438991301129448645noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912069099692452304.post-22855447377024597062017-06-02T13:48:00.002+09:302017-06-22T16:58:51.910+09:30About Educational Meanderings...<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia";">Robert Cannon </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia";">finds some policies and practices in education inspiring, some annoying, and some funny. There is a wealth of good practice in education that deserves to be shared among lecturers, teachers, administrators and the community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">So here he meanders among ideas, pokes fun at those developments that invite it, and shares with those who work towards a
better world through educational development.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Disclaimer: The views
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