Chapter 3
1. Mindwork: Discover
What You Know
Leading Questions:
What I know? I know my personal education
experience: Traditional,
predominately white, middle-class public school.
Did I do well in this
learning environment? I
would say I did. My high school
especially gave a lot of freedom to its students in the hopes that they would
rise to the occasion. I worked
well with more freedom in this way.
How can a teacher
teach at a school with a completely different demographic of students that she
experienced in their own personal education?
Should there be a
different approach to education depending on type of school? (Public, private,
rural, alternative, etc.)
What should the goals
be? Different Goals?
Also do boys and girls
learn differently?
Broad Research Question:
How can teachers
understand students learning today in the 21st century as opposed to
the 20th century?
Things
to consider:
Web
2.0
New
technology – Digital Generation
Increase
in Bullying – more/different types of venues like the Internet
Community
New
set of aptitudes and abilities
Sub-Questions:
How does a middle
school student view art? Is it an
extension of their education or is it a hobby or is it apart of their identity?
What is education
for? What is art education for?
What is it
intentionally or unintentionally doing?
What are its effects?
Who is it for? Everyone?
What do the students from different types of schools have in common? How do they differ?
What do the students from different types of schools have in common? How do they differ?
How do art students
perform in other classes?
What sources or
contacts would I go to in order to find out more?
Documentarians
Professors
Perhaps
a partner to work with me on the project – collaboration
Middle
School Teachers in different types of schools
Students
within these schools
2. Mindwork: Try a Google-ography
Transforming Education
for the 21st Century: New Pedagogies That Help All Students Attain
Sophisticated Learning Outcomes
Study by Harvard University
“As this
study documents, the 21st century seems quite different than the 20th in the
capabilities people need for work, citizenship, and self-actualization”
Comparing 20th
and 21st Century Education Programs
Table Image comparing the Paradigms
The Power of Project
Learning
Promotes project based learning as opposed to the skill and
drill model that dominates a large part of education
While I could find articles and responses to a Part 1 of my
question: How to teach in the 21st
century, I couldn’t find many results discussing the different teaching
approaches for the different types of schools. Perhaps I need to change that part to something more
specific or change the terms/wording.
Key terms:
Self-actualization
Paradigms
Project-based learning
3. Mindwork: Shape Your Working
Bibliography
After reviewing my bibliography and sources, I’m wondering
if I might just pick one type of school and delve into that type of school and
type of student that attends that school more specifically. I want the content to be rich and
detailed, perhaps not spread out amongst several different schools, but rather
defining what educational approach works best at one specific school?
With that said, I really like the idea of comparing and
contrasting the different types –public, private, rural, alternative. I’m not sure entirely where I want to go
with that though.
Most of my sources are articles and websites. I’d like to get different materials
such as curriculum units (since that is a large part of the topic), books,
first hand accounts, documentaries, etc.
I’m not sure where to go next. I wish I could have found more material on
comparing/contrasting different school types so that I can begin to draw
connections and form more research questions.
I think I need to talk to my professors for guidance on
where to take my question.
Chapter 4
1. Mindwork: Explore
the Emic and the Etic
This research would call for more of an etic stance. I would be observing the different art
students in their own classrooms, their own environments, hopefully their own
communities and homes, etc. I
wouldn’t want my being there to be an actual presence or variable on the
student’s responses and behavior.
I feel as though I would want to focus on just the student and not on
the teacher or the parents, but only focus on the effects and the mark left on
the student by those unseen aspects within my documentation.
2. Mindwork: Use the Three Questions for
Analysis
I don’t feel like I have enough evidence to discuss what
surprises, intrigues, and disturbs me quite yet. Ideally, my research would be in the form of film
documentation and my evidence would be the students and their behaviors,
actions, and responses to their education process.
3. Mindwork: State Your Ethics
[date]
[student/parent/guardian’s
name and address]
Dear [student/parent/guardian’s
name]
I am in the process of visualizing and actualizing a
documentary entitled [working title of
the documentary] that will seek to investigate the similarities and
differences between assorted types of schools within the Columbia, Missouri
area. The project will focus on
teaching style, curriculum, and class projects within a Middle School art class
as well as the life of an individual from each school. These schools will include [insert schools]. I hope to follow and film these [4] students not only within the art
classroom, but also outside of school and in their homes. We would appreciate your permission to
include [student’s name] in this
project to represent a student who attends [school’s
name/type of school]. This
could also include other forms of media and excerpts of the material for
possible use for advertising, publicity, and promotional purposes.
[Provide a brief
description of why the student is specifically valuable to the project]
Two copies of this request are enclosed. Please sign both copies and return one
to me, keeping the other one for your files. Thank you for your consideration.
I (we) grant permission for [student’s name] to participate and be featured in [working title of the book].
______________________________________
Signature of student (or parent/guardian of
student under age 18)
____________________________
Date
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