The Conundrum of Adolescence, and the Middle School Science Curriculum
Sixth Article in the Series on The Artistry of Teaching Does neoliberal education reform consider...
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Inquiry: The Cornerstone of Teaching–Part I
Fifth Article in the series on The Artistry of Teaching Conservative and neoliberal paradigms...
Read More10 Ways to Modify the Druid Hills Charter Cluster in DeKalb County, Georgia
Latest Story The Druid Hills Charter Cluster, Inc., is a corporation that has petitioned to the DeKalb County School Board to convert seven public schools into a charter cluster. In 2010, the Georgia Legislature amended the...
Read MoreGeorgia Charter School Clusters: “Under the Dome”
On August 13, about eleven-hundred citizens from the Druid Hills area of DeKalb County, Georgia voted on a petition to create the Druid Hills Charter Cluster (DHCC). The cluster consist of seven schools, five elementary, one...
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The DeKalb County, Georgia “Big Vote” on Druid Hills Charter Cluster May Be in Violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments
Guest Post by Dr. Henry “Chip” Carey Dr. Carey is Associate Professor of Political...
Read MoreThe Art of Mingling Practice and Theory in Teaching
This article is the Fourth in a series on The Artistry of Teaching. In 1896, the laboratory school of the University of Chicago opened its doors under the directorship of John Dewey (Fishman and McCarthy 1998). Dewey’s idea...
Read MoreThe Wisdom of Practice
Latest Article on the Artistry of Teaching Around 1990, I started working on a research project which was published as a book entitled Minds on Science (library copy). I was interested in exploring teaching from a humanistic and...
Read MoreDo Green Classrooms Lead to Artistic Teaching?
Second Article on The Artistry of Teaching In this article we are going to apply the ecological work of Arne Naess to show that classrooms are places where we can find something wonderful and amazing happening among...
Read MoreIs Teaching an Abacus or a Rose?
First article in a series on The Artistry of Teaching Preface Teaching is more immediate than reflective, and the artistry of teaching, much like creativity, comes to the prepared mind, sometimes serendipitously, more often as...
Read MoreNew Design for Art of Teaching Science
Welcome to the new and revised design for The Art of Teaching weblog. I’ve changed the title to The Art of Teaching followed by the subtitle: Progressive Science Education. Since 2005, when I started writing this blog, I...
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