Prairie Sky School Mind Map
This is my mind map after learning about Prairie Sky School: This school provides alternative methods to “traditional” ways of teaching, with desks in rows and through lecturing. In this school space, children are free …
Troubling Knowledge at the U of R
In Chapter 1 of Against Common Sense, Kumashiro describes three popular images of “good teachers” that inform the ways teacher programs are preparing teachers. He then critiques each image, attempting to illuminate the hidden ways …
Why Teaching Racial Thinking is Problematic
A History of Education by Painter (1886) is a textbook that was once part of the formal curriculum for teacher education and was used by teachers in training in the early 1900s in Saskatchewan. In this …
Why Pay Attention to Common Sense?
In his book, Against Common Sense, Kumashiro defines “common sense” as assumptions that go unquestioned. He explains that at the core of “common sense” is the belief that a particular concept is the way things should …
