LINKS
TO WEBSITES
(collected by Greg Nixon, Ass't Professor
University of Northern British Columbia)
for
UNBC Students of Schooling & Education
Sections:
1. ERIC
2. APA
3. GOV'T DATA
4.
FOUNDATIONS of EDUCATION
5. Individual Perspectives on Educational Issues
6.
Critical Pedagogy
7.
Practical Applications & Methods (included Bloom's Taxonomy)
8.
Learning Theories and/or Teaching Models
1. ERIC
(Educational References Information Center)
Educators
Reference Desk: ERIC
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
2.
APA (Americanski Psychological Association Publishing Manual, 5th
ed)
APA Crib Sheet
APA electronic citing/referencing
3. GOV DATA, BC & Canada
British Columbia Teachers' Federation
British Columbia College of Teachers
BCCT – Current Standards for Educators
Canadian Demographic
Statistics
Canadian Family Stats
The Fraser Institute – Students & Learning
Society for the Advancement of Excellence in Education
Statistics Canada Award
for Foundations of Education
Scientism
(worldview paradigm,) aka
objective materialism
Human Development from the Perspective of Robert Kegan
(Kegan's creative development theories are non pareil.)
Kegan’s Evolving Self – Wikipedia Summary
Amateur critique of Kegan’s Evolving Self
Social Constructivism (Vygotsky)
ONLINE ESSAYS (a few)
1. Constructivist Foundations – Interdisciplinary Online Journal
2. Critical Pedagogy & Assessment – Online Essay
3. The Case For & Against Homework – Educational Leadership
4. Review of Social Constructivism - Kim
5. Biological Determinism/Fate – Pratarelli & Mize
6. Constructivism & Teaching (focus on math)
7. John Dewey’s “My Pedagogic Creed”
8. The Education of Free Persons – Schulz
9. Critical Pedagogy – list of essays
10. Developing a Community of Learners
11. The Dreadful Educationalist: Answering A. S. Neill's Critics – Potter
HISTORY
of EDUCATION
The Homeroom: BC History of Education
Canadiana
& British Columbiana
First
Nations / Aboriginal / Native / Indian / Metis History (BC mainly)
Ethnic
/ Immigration / Emigration (BC mainly)
BC History Websites (a list of links)
Education: Canadian
Information by Subject
UNESCO Milestones in Education
World History of Education Timeline (including origins)
Socrates (Sokratos) as
Educator
Plato's Totalitarian Philosopher-King
Prussia:
First Government-Run Public Schools
Horace Mann &
American History of Education
'Speedy' Taylor & Scientific Management in Education
John Dewey's "My Pedagogic Creed"
(The School Journal, 54 (3), 77-80,
1897)
Deweyian
Progressive
Education
A Brief Overview of
Progressive Education
Rogers
& Existential Education
Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs
Underground
History of American Education (J.T. Gatto)
OTHER
FORMS OF EDUCATION
Twenty Years After "A Nation at Risk" (2003)
Democratic Dialogue (democracy, education, society)
5. INDIVIDUAL PERSPECTIVES
Schugurensky: Citizenship & Participatory Democracy
Diane Ravitch (review of her anti-political correctness Language
Police)
Schultz: "The Struggle For Freedom in the Education of Free PersonsÓ
Chester Finn (American conservative speaks)
Alfie Kohn: Against external standards, against punishment or
reward
Kohn
Interview
Jonathan Kozol - Savage Inequalities, etc.
The Seven-Lesson
Schoolteacher (Mr.
Gatto)
How Public Education Cripples Our Kids & Why (J.T. Gatto)
6. CRITICAL PEDAGOGY
1. Paulo Freire
http://home.oise.utoronto.ca/~daniel_schugurensky/freire/freirebooks.html
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm
3. Rage and Hope: Articles by Henry Giroux ( 1-2 pages)
http://www.perfectfit.org/CT/giroux2.html
http://www.Perfectfit.org/CT/giroux3.html
http://www.perfectfit.org/CT/giroux5.html
http://www.perfectfit.org/CT/giroux6.html
4. Rage and Hope: Articles by Michael Apple
http://www.perfectfit.org/CT/apple2.html
http://www.perfectfit.org/CT/apple3.html
http://www.perfectfit.org/CT/apple4.html
http://www.perfectfit.org/CT/apple5.html
http://www.perfectfit.org/CT?apple6.html
http://www.perfectfit.org/CT/apple7.html
5 Rage and Hope: Articles by Peter McLaren
http://www.perfectfit.org/CT/mclaren4.html
http://www.perfectfit.org/CT/mclaren5.html
6. Education
for Democratic Empowerment
7. Practical
Bloom's Taxonomy
(key to uncritical, practical, sit-down curriculum design)
8. LEARNING THEORIES & TEACHING MODELS
Learning
Theories (summary)
Instructional
Design & Learning Theory (from U of Saskatchewan)
Summary &
Comparison of Teaching Models (aka Learning Theories)
Types of Curriculum – According to Wilson
Theories of Learning – Funderstanding
Innateness
or Genetic Determinism
Steven Pinker – The
Blank Slate
Evolutionary
Psychology (also see Richard Dawkins)
Developmental
Evolutionary Psychology
Behaviourism
Behaviourial Modification (model, aka behaviourism) & Education
Humanistic
Learning
Sudbury Valley School (for independent
children)
Cognitivism
Cognitive
Science (gateway site)
Cognitive
Constructivism (learning theory)
Instructional Design Theoretic Models (of all kinds)
Constructivism
Origins & Perspectives (detailed list of sources)
sociocultural context
(some math reference)
Constructivist Foundations - Online Journal
Social
Learning Models
Cooperative Learning (Johnson &
Johnson)
Cooperative Learning
(Sharan & others)
Cooperative Learning
(motivation & psychology)
Developing
a Community of Learners
*
Your
Learning Theory Assumptions Questionnaire
(aka Learning Style)
Multiple Intelligences
Site
(including a number of MI
self-assessment questionnaires)
More detailed MI
Self-Assessment
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