As I mentioned in the last post, I am much taken with David Cormier’s ideas on community as the curriculum. In a number of posts in his blog, listed below, he first develops his ideas on learning communities and then extends this into what it means for open education. After reviewing and summarising (my understanding) of these I will make an attempt to link the discussion to notions of critical pedagogy, what it is and how it could be implemented in the context of a critical learning community engaged in critical open education.At the moment I am writing this as a Word document but will post it here when it is reasonably presentable.
To be continued..
http://davecormier.com/edblog/2010/08/01/open-learning-what-i-have-learned/
http://davecormier.com/edblog/2010/06/17/community-as-curriculum-and-open-learning/
http://davecormier.com/edblog/2008/06/03/rhizomatic-education-community-as-curriculum/
Hi Terry… that’s pretty exciting. Can’t wait to see what you come up with.
I was starting a CV entry for people who had looked at the model. http://davecormier.wikispaces.com/impact+on+field You might find the last entry particularly interesting in terms of how the model can be applied.