Posted in Humor on June 30, 2007 | No Comments »
The stories about parents and children over at One Good Thing are hilarious and oddly touching. I’m not a parent - god forbid that I should be given responsibility for a child - but some of the stories recounted are pure joy.
Posted in Academia, Education, Education Schools, Grad School on June 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A friend asked me to just summarize my points from my last post on EdDs versus PhDs. I guess I bloggeth too much. Basically, three questions to consider:
1. What profession / occupational system are you planning to enter? If you’re going to be working within the ladders of an educational system or a field in which [...]
Posted in Academia, Education, Education Schools, International and Comparative Education on June 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been spending some time counseling newly admitted and incoming students to our august institution; many have been admitted to Master of Education (EdM) degree programs, which we call the ‘advanced masters’ as it requires 60 credits to 32 for the Master of Arts (MA). I’m comforted by the fact that most of these students [...]
Posted in Academia, Grad School on June 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Fabio’s Grad Skool Rulz over at orgtheory.net always provides great reading, and the points raised in his latest post on ‘dissertating’ strike me for the most part as absolutely correct. Based on my first and current attempts at my doctorate, I’ve seen so many talented students move away and study part-time in order to teach and work. They justify [...]
Posted in Actor-Network Theory, Asian Studies, Education, International and Comparative Education, Observation Theory, Social Theory on June 22, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m in the midst of scrambling to finish a paper on the concept of education and the Pacific Rim: a topic on which there’s been very little written, with the notable exception of a few essays by Robert Cowen, emeritus professor of the Institute of Education at the University of London (see for example this [...]
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