Hello Gang,
Well I will have to say I wish I would have read the "conversations" between the SA, SE, LC, and SR at the beginning of the book... it just seems like it made so much more sense to see their "debates" over tangible issues. However if I would have read the conservations prior to the knowledge I now have I may have just been more confused!
In reading Schiro I was amazed by how ofter the SR agreed with the SA, on ideas such as needing to acquire academic content, but the difference between SR and SA is why or for what benefit does the academic content need to be acquired.
I did find the whole set of of each "play" interesting, typically the SA took charge and described the task and the SE had the "efficient" program, it seemed that the LC took the back listening seat until they were asked and the SR jumped in when it seemed they couldn't hold back any longer... did you also notice these idiosyncrasies?
I did find comfort in Shiro stating that you can waiver between learning ideologies, and I would dare to say possible uphold multiple ideologies at once based upon what task you are interested in the students doing, even in Chapter 11 of Noddings she states that its ok for students to have certain facts memorized if that opens up a bigger idea or problem for them to concentrate on.... I almost feel that all of them have some place and merit, but perhaps as educators its our overall duty to discern when are where to use each type? What do you think? Also after reading about the teachers best and worse students I realized maybe the "school" needs all types of teachers teaching different ideologies because different students learn and thrive under different organization and teaching/learning styles.... Would Noddings say that choice of teacher ideology should be another choice students can and should make?
As Noddings wrapped up her book I found her take on Common Core (even though now Oklahoma is not adopting) but I found it interesting that she stated it was nothing new... that we had had these same standards for decades now the language was just a little more straight forward... what did you find interesting from Noddings?
