Today’s Field Experience journal entry will be short. I hope to do a few phone interviews today with relevant members of the retention program at CCSN today. Though Dr. C didn’t ask for solutions, in my table (Obstacles and Workarounds for Action Research on Retention) I included a column for ‘workarounds’. When I ask students [...]
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Retention Pre-Assignments
January 10, 2007Change by Consensus vs. Mandated Change
January 9, 2007Okay, while reading the assigned chapter, light dawned on marble head: the change we set out to study should be ‘needed’. Why this only now occurs to me as Ohio State and Florida square off, I know not but it does put a damper on this morning’s revelation. I can’t have students survey peers about [...]
Does objectivity exist?
January 5, 2007“Descartes argued, human beings would be able to understand the world in an unbiased way, unaffected by the imperfections of their sensorial organs.”
I disagree w/ Descartes if I understand this as his suggestion that ‘objectivity’ is possible. I believe even math and ‘science’ are coloured by personal experience and expectation and that there is [...]
What is Action Research?
January 4, 2007Okay, so I’ve read a bit about, on and around the topic in assigned and surfed resources, but I keep thinking it seems suspiciously close to service learning. I mean, Thomas Deans uses some of the same language: some degree of risk, partnership, collaboration, participatory democracy, critical consciousness, competencies, reflection, learning from each other. About [...]
