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Right now I am reading “How Theatre Educates: Convergences and Counterparts” by Gallagher, K. & Booth, D. and it has inspired some thought. The tome has been compiled by a number of respectable theatre artists, educators, scholars, activists and advocates. The main argument the book makes is: “Keeping ‘education,’ with its curriculum components of dramatic …
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My last post for my personal aesthetic practice “Childhood Wonder”. One of my favourite things to do is look at art. Ever since I was little I loved to leaf through books that had images. One of the genres, or subjects, I enjoyed most as a child was dragons and monsters. Seems a little cliche …
This is another post for my personal aesthetic practice. When I was very young, I used to love when my mom would read stories to me and my siblings. Sitting on the couch and hearing these beautiful and complex worlds pour from the pages and through my moms voice, to my ears and into my …
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Our current education curriculum has a vast number of classes that aid in the development of many different aspects of our students learning. We have physical education courses that help students maintain and grow in physical well being, math classes aid in cognitive development, social studies courses help our students grow in understanding of social …
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Our current education system is like a huge factory. Students are grouped together by their age and are pumped through the exact same classes, and learning is generally confined to the classroom. Although this has some benefits such as it being relatively simple to teach the same content year after year to student after student, …
This is another post for my personal aesthetic practice. Here are two pictures of houses in Regina. The first is an image of a house I lived in for a couple months with some roommates in downtown Regina right beside Scott Collegiate on Athol Street. The next is an image of a house in …
TED Talks are awesome, and this is another one of my favourites from Simon Sinek. Its called Start With Why. In this video Simon explains the importance of having a deep meaning behind everything we do, and I couldn’t have said it better myself. Sometimes I get lost in all the rush and business of …
In my computers in education (ECMP355) course we have been going over storytelling. I wanted to explore the uses and benefits of storytelling, what makes a good story, and how could we nurture the skill of storytelling in our students? I strongly believe in story telling for a couple reasons… Whether it is a written …
This is another post for my personal aesthetic practice in my aesthetic education class. I remember when I was very young and watched the Bugs Life for the first time and believed trees grew from rocks. I can specifically remember when I was very young living at my first home. I lived on an acreage …
I strongly believe, as educators one of our primary responsibilities is to inspire our students, so they can become the best they can be. It is our job to be learning leaders that help guide and nurture our students learning. We are not to be just an authority figure who hands out assignments and detentions. …
Benjamin Ironstand 