Activist Teacher Blog
Because I love reading anything that is critical of the academic system. Because I could go on for days criticising the university system. When I was in high school I would mentally note things I hated about the public school system and wanted to change. And now that I'm working in France I've already started to critically think about the way the school board is run here. The Activist Teacher blog is written by ex-UofO professor Denis Rancourt and examines our educational system with a very critical eye. Sometime I agree with him and sometimes I'm not sure what to think, but most importantly he gets you thinking about how we run our classes, how we 'teach', what we 'learn', how the school system functions to support the capitalist society we are surrounded by etc. etc. etc. and what sort of 'thinkers' we are producing. Do we need to completely disassemble the system to recreate something more conducive to learning? What is the real goal of 'education'? and how do we go about reaching it? Ah I could go on forever.
Anyways, if you are like me and have sat in lecture and have thought 'why am I here?' 'what's the point of all this?' 'I'm not going to learn anything from this course... I hope I can get through it with an average mark...' etc. then you will probably enjoy checking out Rancourt's blog. Enjoy!
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