Wednesday, 31 October 2007

Popstars in Educational Science

This is an exercise for next week:
Please google educational scientists, women and man, contemporary and historical and pick one name of a famous educational scientist... in your comment add the name and a biographical or theoretical characteristic of this person...
help:
google keywords to find people and
check out their context
what and with whom did they think? (theoretical approach)
where and how did they grow up to think this way? (biographical and cultural background)


Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

Please comment on today's discussion regarding the satirical ethnographic text!

This is what Valentin wrote originally:

First I want to say, Im raging। I just have kopied almost the hole Handappart Map, (because there are really interessting articels in it!!) but, I failed to check if the machine does the thing I want too. In short words: It did not! Damit,anyway I read the articel one time, and thats my first impressions about it.

I Body Ritual among the Nacirema
These people (the Naciremian) have a very strange way of doing their rituals. (But! they have some in comperhention to us). Anyway it is a very sadistic and masochistic way of carring for their own healthy.
For example: when the medicine man stabs his patients with needls or the holy mouth man "jabs an awl into an exposed nerve". As I read the following sentence I could not belive it." As part of this ceremony, women bake their heads in a small ovens for about an our." Can you imagine this?Nevertheless I think its kind of interessting to see, that here are people who have recognised that pain is a central part of life.

Group Projects

Our Group
Flo, Reini, Vali,
wants to do a film project about Music and Education.
Thats the idea.
Our questions could be:
Is music responsible for the growth, (development) of children or humans.
How does music influcene our education? etc.

Ja but the idea is clearMusic and Education Film Project.

Wednesday, 24 October 2007

A film clip and its educational relevance... please comment!

We have seen film clips today:
1. Absolutely Fabulous (Hospital Scene)
2. Gilmore Girls (Rory in Yale)
3. Little Britain (Fat Fighters)
4. Sopranos (Big Girls Don’t Cry, Psychonanalyst Scene)
5. Mumins (The Martian Goes Home)
6. Mc Leod’s Daughters (in the Pub)

Please comment on the discussion we had after viewing the clips:
What educational themes are embedded? Which one can you relate to? Which theme might be a theme you would like to write about in your paper?

Student Online Newspaper

Hi all
me and some of my friends had the idea to make our own student newspaper.
As it is easier to do this Online first, befor go into printing, it will be a online newspaper at the beginning.
If you want to join us, check out our Newspaper Idea Site at

studentenblatt.blogspot.com

first lesson

Before my first english lesson i was pretty nervous and this didn`t change during the english lesson. I didn`t understand anything and i nearly cried because the others seemed to be so good in english. Despite it was good for me beeing confronted with the language and i enjoyed to take a look into english newspaper. I`m looking forward to study english a little bit harder because it`s an important language and it`s embarrasing that i`m not so good.

Wednesday, 17 October 2007

Other Research Blogs

You can watch my own Research blog at

vsb2007.blogspot.com

Research Dissemination

We are looking at UK tabloids to find out how research, education and learning is mediated.
The five student groups have read (scanned) a newspaper each and have summarised one story.
Each group: please comment on this post.
Which newspaper did you look at?
What is the headline of your story?
Please let us know your two sentences summary.