Entry ticket - Three Curricula all Schools Teach - Eisner

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The biggest idea for me was the idea that the foundation of nearly all components of the school from the physical plant to the curriculum is really based on tradition rather than careful thought into what is really needed to develop 'holistic' adults.   Judging from Eisner's bio, before I read the article, I was expecting a long discussion on how the Arts were underserved in schools.  It was interesting to read how so many things were underserved, not just the arts.

In addition, his point about the 'class' system and competition in school whereby some students get tracked to 'honors' classes and their grades count for more than a regularly tracked student.  I remember this system in my high school - students were tracked early, around 6-7th grade and then they stayed on those tracks.  I was tracked high for math and this carried with it a 'cache' that I remember I liked.

Ways that this might expand our ideas about what is meant by 'curriculum'. How does the mandated BC Provincial Curriculum connect with Eisner's ideas?

The article inspired me to research further into BC Curriculum and potential ways in which one teacher could make very slight modifications in her own classroom that would push this objective forward.  More generally, I am wondering how could I integrate affect and psychomotor into every class?  What other ideas/subject areas would be relevant to my topic?  For example, could I integrate communications (using my MBA degree, most likely) to some topics?  How about economics and the arts?  Partnering with another teacher?  

And then I'm curious what the school already has underway in this area and how I could join in with that work.  And then perhaps talking to colleagues at other schools?  If administration has bought in on at least some level, it seems to me that work would be much more readily developed and implemented. 

I really enjoyed this article!  Thanks!

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