teaching and learning

The Good News: Addressing Egan’s Incompatibilities in Educational Thinking

Below are Egan’s (2001) 3 fundamental and incompatible ideas that underlie the purpose of education: 1. Socializing the young (socialization) 2. Shaping the mind with a disciplined academic curriculum (quality education) 3. Facilitating the development of students’ potential (unlocking potential) It seems a grandiose attempt to postulate that there is a way to address theContinue reading “The Good News: Addressing Egan’s Incompatibilities in Educational Thinking“

The 4 Cultures of Curriculum: Insights and Questions for Future Directions

This is a summary of 4 out of the 8 cultures of the curriculum (Joseph, 2011). What I learned Educating through occupations emphasizes preparing the students for meaningful work. Connecting to the Canon centers on the breadth of knowledge that has stood the test of time with the hope of having this knowledge as aContinue reading “The 4 Cultures of Curriculum: Insights and Questions for Future Directions“

Capsule Learning

Expanding Radford’s Theory of Objectification to Teaching and Learning among Young Adult Students of Social Psychology Capsule learning is my attempt to expand the theory of objectification by incorporating the protection of self-esteem and activation of sociocultural awareness. It is my hope that after reading this blog as a short version of my paper, youContinue reading “Capsule Learning”

Seeing Cultural Differences as Strengths for Learning

Learning is for life. Learning is a fundamental operation for us to navigate through our experiences. Interestingly, lifelong learning happens in the context of our social and cultural experiences. This context may be different across groups of individuals which calls for a teaching and learning approach that considers these differences. This blog is a shortContinue reading “Seeing Cultural Differences as Strengths for Learning”

Nature and Spiritual Health: Sharing of Ideas and Experiences

This session is a 50-minute nature and spiritual health standalone course. It focuses on activating participants’ awareness of their spiritual health and on explaining how nature influences spiritual health in general. The course was conducted through Zoom with 3 confirmed participants. The participants were my classmates from the PID program. Monika is a botanical scientist,Continue reading “Nature and Spiritual Health: Sharing of Ideas and Experiences”

Diversity of Learners

In his book on The Skillful Teacher, Brookfield (2015, p. 15) emphasized that “There will be very few standardized practices that help students across the board learn essential skills or knowledge. An approach that one student finds particularly useful or congenial may well be profoundly unsettling and confusing to the student sitting next to her.”Continue reading “Diversity of Learners”

Lecture and My Passion

Providing lecture has been the go-to in terms of sharing contents to students and its use dates back to ancient times (Exley & Dennick, 2009). However, lecture has been under constant scrutiny because of the argument that it is a one-way learning process in which students are seen as passive learners. This somehow made meContinue reading “Lecture and My Passion”

My Professional Goals

Last 2017, I committed to a 10-year goal which is to live a meaningful life by committing to learning not for comfort but for character development. With this, I want to make use of my skills in teaching and research in helping a community in need. With the remaining 5 to 6 years of myContinue reading “My Professional Goals”

My Reflections on the Core Assumptions of Skillful Teaching

There are 4 core assumptions of skillful teaching (Chapter 2; Brookfield, 2015). These are the following: Skillful teaching is whatever helps students learn. Skillful teachers adopt a critically reflective stance toward their practice. The most important knowledge that skillful teachers need to do good work is a constant awareness of how students are experiencing theirContinue reading “My Reflections on the Core Assumptions of Skillful Teaching”

My Professional Identity

Good day! In this blog, I’ll be sharing to you my personal and professional values as an instructor. To help me flesh out my professional identity, I took the teaching perspectives inventory and reflected on my results. Before talking about my TPI result, I’d like you to know more about TPI. Refer to the seriesContinue reading “My Professional Identity”