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Forum Post Majavu: Reply to Chris: Debate on alternative education

Forum Post, July, 30 2010 Mandisi Majavu
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 Thanks for sharing the material Chris---it's very useful. I have a few questions however. What do you think is the best  liberatory pedagogy technique for children math under a capitalist system? I’m afraid that neither ...

Forum Post Majavu: alternative education & Casablanca

Forum Post, July, 30 2010 Mandisi Majavu
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 Hi again DavidUnlike social sciences and humanities, mathematics is a field of study in which there are ‘right answers’. So the question arises: how do we instil this truth to children while encouraging them to be creative, to qu...

Forum Post Majavu: another link: Debate on alternative education

Forum Post, July, 30 2010 Mandisi Majavu
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 Hi Antti Thank you for uploading the article.  Here is another link to a research article about some of these issues---I think it's a useful resource: http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED310914.pdf M

Forum Post Majavu: reply to David: Debate on alternative education

Forum Post, July, 30 2010 Mandisi Majavu
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 Hi DavidYou raise very interesting points. I agree with you regarding the language used to present the thoughts of the writers. But I think you would agree that the authors of the paper are as much interested in finding better ways of teac...

Forum Post Spannos: Re: Re: Re: Re: Some loose topics

Forum Post, July, 30 2010 Chris Spannos
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Mandisi Wrote: I haven't read David Graeber's book yet; but I would like to suggest that we all read it and review it. We could begin the review of the book in 4 weeks time. Is that enough time for everybody to get the book and read it? I'm hopi...

Forum Post Spannos: Re: Re: Re: Re: Debate on alternative education

Forum Post, July, 29 2010 Chris Spannos
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Hi All,  Antti, I know you were interested in education as it pertains primarily to children, so below is an article by Bertrand Russell that may be a bit dated but has a few insights.  And below the Russell essay is a few sources for mo...

Forum Post Marty: Re: Re: Re: Debate on alternative education

Forum Post, July, 28 2010 David Marty
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I've just read it. Quite frankly, although there are some interesting points, it is expressed in a rather fancy academic language, far from Postmodernism but yet rather technical for being about children in a classroom. The idea that a class shoul...

Forum Post Jauhiainen: Re: Re: Debate on alternative education

Forum Post, July, 28 2010 Antti Jauhiainen
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 Just quickly:I uploaded the article for easier access here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/35153/constructivistmath.pdf-antti

Forum Post Marty: Re: Debate on alternative education

Forum Post, July, 28 2010 David Marty
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Hi Mandisi!Nice to meet you, my name is David. I'm French and also half Spanish. I currently live in Madrid.I wisjed to read the article you refer to but did not find it. Where can I read it? Maybe we could start a discussion around this topic aft...

Forum Post Marty: Education in Activism

Forum Post, July, 28 2010 David Marty
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Hello everyone!I would like to comment on the issue of education which will allow me also to talk a little of what I understand as activism, in matters of strategy, concretely speaking. I will take the example of "Casablanca: Centro Ocupado y...

Forum Post Majavu: Economics Crisis Debate

Forum Post, July, 26 2010 Mandisi Majavu
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 I think we all know why public intellectuals focus on the current crisis instead of pointing out that capitalism is inherently a bad system for the majority of people on planet earth. Mainstream society rewards intellectuals who present a ca...

Forum Post Majavu: Debate on alternative education

Forum Post, July, 26 2010 Mandisi Majavu
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Perhaps we could have the debate on education here. I tried uploading an interesting article to get us started, but for some weird reason I couldn't upload it. So I emailed it to you. I haven't read the article; it looks rather interesting however...

Forum Post Majavu: Re: Re: Re: Some loose topics

Forum Post, July, 26 2010 Mandisi Majavu
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 I’m quite interested in any debate about education. I feel that there have been a lot of debates about alternative education that focus in the arts. I haven’t seen many debates on how to teach mathematics/science in an alternativ...

Forum Post Majavu: intro

Forum Post, July, 26 2010 Mandisi Majavu
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 Hi allI'm based in Cape Town, South Africa. I'm a social science researcher by training---I work at a university. I am very excited about being part of this group.Cheers,Mandisi 

Forum Post Jauhiainen: Re: Re: Some loose topics

Forum Post, July, 23 2010 Antti Jauhiainen
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>> I think we can probably do a few interesting things on the topic of Participatory Education. As a matter of fact, at last May's Left Forum I organized a panel on this subject with both Meaghan and Pat of this group. Pat spoke about self-m...

Forum Post Evans: Hello Everyone

Forum Post, July, 22 2010 Mark Evans
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 Hello everyone -I live in Birmingham, which after London, I think is the second capital here in the UK.I work at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital as a nurse on a neurosurgical ward which happens to be part of the number one military tr...

Forum Post Evans: Re: Re: Some loose topics

Forum Post, July, 22 2010 Mark Evans
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I think education in a parsoc is an important subject as is media production in a participatory economy.  I think the latter would help highlight where we differ strategically  from most Marxist organisations who tend to want to National...

Forum Post Spannos: Re: Some loose topics

Forum Post, July, 21 2010 Chris Spannos
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Hi Antti, I think we can probably do a few interesting things on the topic of Participatory Education. As a matter of fact, at last May's Left Forum I organized a panel on this subject with both Meaghan and Pat of this group. Pat spoke about self-...

Forum Post Jauhiainen: Some loose topics

Forum Post, July, 21 2010 Antti Jauhiainen
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Participatory education and the current situation in education is a subject I would be interested to approach (as I'm studying behavioral sciences), but there isn't much "burningly current" ways to approach that. Economic crisis is a goo...

Forum Post Spannos: Ideas & Focus

Forum Post, July, 20 2010 Chris Spannos
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Does anyone want to pitch some proposals here for possible initial projects?Articles on...Economic CrisisBP Oil SpillAny book reviews, past or present?(I apologize for this being short on ideas, I actually tried posting more suggestions but I mana...

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