conventional pedagogy

December 18, 2012

Henry A. Giroux | The War Against Teachers as Public Intellectuals in Dark Times

…In the name of austerity, schools are defunded so as to fail and provide an excuse to be turned over to the privatizing advocates of free-market fundamentalism. In this discourse, free-market reform refuses to imagine public education as the provision… Continue reading
December 17, 2012

The End of the University as We Know It – Nathan Harden – The American Interest Magazine

One of the biggest barriers to the mainstreaming of online education is the common assumption that students don’t learn as well with computer-based instruction as they do with in-person instruction. There’s nothing like the personal touch of being in a… Continue reading