Kouzes and Posner’s (1990) Leadership Skills:
Kurt Lewin’s theoretical approach to environmental assessment:
Working on my first ever literature review! (Weeeeeeee!) I’m trying to stay positive, but I am really struggling with the assignment. People keep telling me that they’re easy and the more literature reviews I write the better I get at writing them. I hope they’re right.
Today, while I was reading an article for my lit review, I came across this quote:
“By accepting a student, the department is making a statement that it believes he or she has the potential to succeed and also a moral commitment to provide whatever assistance is required… Institutional obligation does not end with the admitting process.” – John Stith, Making A Difference: Ethnic Diversity in Physics
What an amazing little gem in the middle of an article on physics! I’d like to somehow incorporate that into my philosophy of education. I want to carry that around in my pocket, I love it so much.
In my Intro to Higher Ed class last semester, one of the first assignments we were given was to create a philosophy of education. Pressed for time and lacking inspiration, I struggled to come up with enough information to satisfy the rubric requirements. But I actually want to dig deeper and generate a philosophy of education that I can use in the “real world,” one that informs my practice now and in the future. I developed a teaching philosophy in my undergraduate years, but that’s when I thought I’d be teaching high school English. As I’ve grown and matured as a graduate student, so have my ideas about education. And as someone who wants to work in university student services, I won’t necessarily be in a “traditional” classroom, so what does a philosophy of education look like for me?
These are some questions I’ll be mulling over while I tease out this whole philosophy thing:
Saving these articles to read more in depth.
Wylijanna Cole, M.Ed. 