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ED4001 – Week 2

ED4001 – Week 2. Hello. How is everyone? Good first week? Register. Can you name all your classmates (prize)?. Icebreaker. Meet a new person: Why did they come to University?. Lecture Recall. Main ideas and points: In groups. Two K ey Questions. What is common sense?

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ED4001 – Week 2

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  1. ED4001 – Week 2

  2. Hello • How is everyone? Good first week? • Register. Can you name all your classmates (prize)?

  3. Icebreaker • Meet a new person: Why did they come to University?

  4. Lecture Recall Main ideas and points: In groups.

  5. Two Key Questions • What is common sense? • What is critical thinking?

  6. Zen Koan Nan-in, a Japanese Zen master, received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!“ "Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?"

  7. Education solves problems We know what is “good” Education is always good Education = Schooling

  8. “What does a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life?” (Einstein, 1956) Education = School Education is good Performance can be ranked Higher Achievement = Better Education

  9. Reading • Who did the reading? • What did you think? • What was the main argument? • Is this common-sense? “Through the conduct of large-scale experimental studies…education will be able to witness ‘the kind of progressive, systematic improvement over time that has characterized…medicine, agriculture, transportation and technology’” (page 11)

  10. Debate • Are league tables (schools, universities, etc) good for education?

  11. In groups discuss • What is the “is-ought problem” (p. 12)? • What is the distinction between “the normative validity of our measurements” and the “technical validity of our measurements” (p. 13)? • Can you define “socialization” and “subjectification” in your own words (p. 21)

  12. Carroll Diagram ? ? ? ?

  13. Academic Reading Skills Skimming - Author's argument - Points/literature used - Tradition s/he comes from

  14. Class Discussion • What kind of academic sources should we use in our essays? • How do we assess the trustworthiness of a source? • Where do we find sources?

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