Category Archives: Education

“Imagined Geographies”

Posted on January 28, 2007 by Michael

In my thesis, I am arguing for the metaphor of viewing the blogosphere as the ideal city, drawing from the work of Iris Marion Young. Lisa suggested I read Reynolds’s article, and I’m really glad I did. Reynolds is concerned … Continue reading →

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on the ecology of education

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Michael

It seems that ecology is a hot topic when it comes to education. Recently Kevin Brooks blogged about the links between Marshall McCluhan and Rachel Carson, quoting from Marc Leverette’s Towards an Ecology of Understanding: […] we can see that … Continue reading →

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more on gta identification

Posted on January 15, 2007 by Michael

Sara photocopied this article for me on teacher’s identification for GTAs. Freyberg and Ponarin contend that teacherly identification is formed through resocialization, which “tries to ‘make up for or correct some deficiency in earlier socialization’” (140, quoting Stanton Wheeler), rather … Continue reading →

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Robert Brooke on ‘underlife’

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Michael

I really like Brooke’s concept of the “underlife” — or, more accurately, his use of Erving Goffman’s concept of “underlife.” Brooke defines the underlife as “the activities (or information games) individuals engage in to show that their identities are different … Continue reading →

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Controlled and watered down literacies in classrooms

Posted on November 19, 2006 by Michael

Clarence Fisher over at Remote Access discusses something I think is pretty important: the co-opting of cultural literacies for the classroom, without actually using them in ways they are actually used. He write about blogging, for instance, where the teacher … Continue reading →

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