To recognize and utilize what is pertinent knowledge to one’s inquiry is truly a problematic area as is often misconstrued by educators. At the center of this lesson we find the question of “How should we teach mutuality?” We must remind ourselves of the inadequacies of today’s education and keep that reality fresh in our minds for […]
Month: August 2008
PEDAGOGY & MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
Within the sphere of complex thinking, in the audiovisual culture, we must embrace Howard Gardner’s concept of “multiple intelligences.” The traditional IQ test is no longer a valid medium of measurement of a student’s intelligence. This idea is especially paramount in an audiovisual culture whereby movies, video games, and Internet graphics transmit ideologies and paradigms to […]
KNOWLEDGE IS A SEAMLESS WEB!
An old French professor once told me, “Knowledge is a seamless web.” I couldn’t agree more, and all the more so in the 21st century. When one considers the context of historical, ecological, sociological, cultural, economical and political, one finds a knowledge which is the 21st paradigm of humanity—known as the global. In the global […]