The Re-Negotiation of Authority in Education

This is a new topic (as of December 2009) which explores the issue of the re-negotiation of authority which will be required as part of the transformation in education which is currently underway.

As if on cue, this New York Times article on physics professor Walt

What accounts for the persistence of the "magical sage" approach to education as embodied in the Open Yale courses discussed in previous posts?

Since the previous postings have been rather critical of the Open Yale courses, here are ten good things to say about them (many of which I've stolen shamelessly from others).

Two other shortcomings of the Open Yale initiative are the notions, promoted by Open Yale's marketing, that the video lectures plus ancillary materials constitute "courses," and that these courses rep

The launch of Open Yale Courses has generated attention and praise as a step forward in the open e

Attending a small group meeting reminded me of the ambiguities of face-to-face communication and how they apply to teaching and learning.

Here's one of a few news items I heard recently which have kept me thinking about authoritarian education. This one is about a teacher who wants to carry a gun to class.

Belief in teacher-centered education is strongly held by many, but there's a truly virulent strain of this meme: authoritarian education -- which, as I discovered recently, at least one US Supreme Cou

Here is a comment on a blog I found recently: