Saturday, April 7, 2012

CROSSING THE CULTURAL DIVIDE

An Engrossing Article on Cross-Cultural Communicative Competence (CCCC)

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

For apart from inquiry, apart from praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, and with each other (Freire, P., 1993, p.3)

Saturday, February 4, 2012

IS OBSERVATION EXPERIENCE DURING PRACTICE TEACHING MEANINGLESS?

OBSERVATION IN LEARNING TO TEACH: FORMS OF "SEEING"

A CASE STUDY on TEACHER REFLECTION
by Robert M. Boody

TEACHER REFLECTION AS TEACHER CHANGE, AND TEACHER CHANGE AS MORAL RESPONSE

A DIFFERENT FOUNDATION OF KNOWLEDGE

...[A]nother kind of knowledge is available to us, one that begins in a different passion and is drawn toward other ends. This knowledge can contain just as much sound fact and theory as the knowledge we now possess, but because it springs from truer passion, it works towards truer ends. This knowledge that originates not in curiosity or control but in compassion or love- a source celebrated not in our intellectual tradition but in our spiritual heritage (Parker Palmer, 1983).

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

The article below draws from Geneva Gay’s recent book, Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice, which received the 2001 Outstanding Writing Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. (Click the link to read the article)

Thursday, March 31, 2011

The best warm-up writing activities ever!!!

I came across this book during my research for a writing project. I checked the first 39 exercises from the books.google.com and got fascinated by a vast variety of interesting ideas and I immediately ordered the book.

I got the book today and I realized that buying this book has been one of the wisest decisions I have made for a while. I have to confess that I haven't seen such a creative, fun and thorough book for a super long time. The activities can be adapted to all levels as a warm-up. It seems that it is already my writing warm-up bible.

http://books.google.com/books?id=VolA-qXVE3kC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+write-brain+workbook&source=bl&ots=77hro50DKm&sig=zN_ZbpHdiVszk369GNYxBZ_lnU8&hl=en&ei=HC6OTdeZL46y0QHD24W3Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=13&sqi=2&ved=0CHMQ6AEwDA#