Curriculum As Conversation: Transforming Traditions of Teaching and Learning
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Curriculum as Conversation: Transforming Traditions of Teaching and Learning Arthur N. Applebee
Chapters 1-3: Examining “Cultural Traditions of Knowing and Doing”
Why have we “…ended up with schools and colleges that, while not particularly exciting places for teachers or students, have passed virtually unchanged through wave after wave of educational reform[?] The answer, I believe, lies in the ways we have thought about cultural traditions of knowing and doing, about what students should know, and about how to embed that knowledge in specific curricula” (vii).
Applebee asks, “What does it mean to enter into culturally significant traditions of knowing and doing?”
1. Identify 4-6 cultural traditions with which you are familiar and/ or in which you participate. List them here:
2. Choose one and briefly analyze the assumptions and beliefs that are embedded in your chosen tradition and its enactment.
3. Answer Applebee’s question:
Group 1: for yourself as an individual
Group 2: for yourself as a MA candidate (student)
Group 3: as a teacher