Reimagining the Educated Mind: Using Student Choice Curriculum to Transform Educational Practices

· Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
eBook
168
Pages

About this eBook

Reimagining the Educated Mind presents Student Choice Curriculum, a descriptive argument for a major change in high school education. This is a system where students select topics/subjects of interest and then, in negotiation with teachers, design the curriculum and assessment strategies they will follow. Four hypothetical students serve as models; thus, the reader sees both the overall structure of Student Choice Curriculum and the day-to-day educational practices within schools that might use it. Student Choice Curriculum will help students learn how to learn and how to situate that learning in the real world, something current educational paradigms do not accomplish.

About the author

Ben Graffam currently teaches Theory of Knowledge and Philosophy at International Baccalaureate East in Haines City, Florida. Since beginning in education in 1982, he has earned a Master’s Degree in Gifted Education, a Ph.D. in Special Education, taught Gifted Studies at University of South Florida’s College of Education, and served as an Education Specialist at USF’s College of Medicine. His research has been published in journals of both Gifted and Medical Education. He lives in Lakeland, Florida, with his wife, Cheryl and their cats, Tawny and Ruby, the Port Sisters.

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