Weekly Questions and/or Reflections Respond in writing to the weekly questions posted for each week. After completing the weekly readings, provide a thorough response in your own words to the weekly questions posted in the course week/module. Please make sure you submit your answers in the respective weekly journals. Do not forget to include the habits of mind you used in the analysis of the readings. Please make sure your responses demonstrate your own personal thoughtful reflections on the readings. Please note that Assignment One will be submitted through a Weekly Journal format. This assignment requires you to apply at least one Habits of Mind.
Habits of mind are 16 patterns of intellectual behavior that promote efficient and effective thinking. As you engage in the course readings and assignments, please incorporate the habits of mind identified by the instructors into your reflections. Please use the following questions as a guideline for reflective writing in your weekly assignments and discussions: 1. How might the HoM you selected serve you as you are working on this week’s readings? 2. As you reflect on your strategy for using the HoMs, what did it involve? Key definitions to keep in mind when working on weekly journals: Reflective writing: A reflective essay/responses involves looking back, or reflecting on, prior experiences and behaviors. Analytical writing: An analytical essay/response is about perspective. You analyze a controversial or debatable topic and provide support for your particular point of view.
JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT #1 Purpose: Reflect on the key concepts/terms that form Politics of Curriculum and evaluate Bloom and Hirsch’s influence on education. Directions: After reading Pinar & Bowers article and Postmodernism Chapter 2 by Aronowitz and Giroux, please answer the following questions: 1. After reading the Pinar & Bowers article and reviewing the powerpoint presentation, reflect on the key terms/concepts presented by Pinar and Bowers, and how do they relate to the politics of curriculum? 2. From Aronowitz and Giroux Chapter 2: o (1) Compare and Evaluate Bloom’s and Hirsch’s educational reforms to education (Be Specific and provide examples from the chapter), and (2) Aronowitz and Giroux state on p. 52 that Hirsch and Bloom seem to promote “a public philosophy informed by a crippling ethnocentricism”. What are the implications of such a statement on pedagogy? MUST BE TYPED USING APA 7TH EDITION I WILL PROVIDE ALL RESOURCES NEEDED