I would like to WELCOME everyone in the critical pedagogy group to our new blog. The idea to set up a blog was sparked off by the group's meeting on Oct 18, 2007.
In the meeting, we talked about some new research studies going on from our new group members. Topics like "deviant youth" stirred up quite a bit of controversial issues, followed by some exciting discussions. At the end, we felt we needed an easily accessible platform to carry on good and constructive intellectual conversations as well as a place to share our ideas and work in between the face to face meetings. This was how this blog came about.
Some simple instructions and guidelines:
- Come to this blog just like you would when you visit other web-sites and blogs. There's no need to log in if you are simply browsing and reading other's stuff.
- To post your writings, thoughts, ideas and upload pictures or files within your post, you'll need to login the blog. Press the 'Sign in' button on the upper right hand corner. Once you are in, click on the new button 'New Post' which will appear on the same spot. Everything else is pretty much 'what you see is what you get'.
- You can also contribute by commenting on other's posts. Under the end of each post, there's a button 'comments'. You can probably figure out the rest.
- Do remember that our blog is open to the public. If there are things that you don't intend for the public to read or see, then simply don't post it here. We do have control in terms of who can post or comment on our blog, so that's taken care of.
3 comments:
Hey here I'm. Thank you Nicol:D
Likewise, thanks, Nicol!
As you say, last week's discussion about Lucia's research into 'deviant' youth in China raised lots of interesting points regarding power & positioning in educational practice, and ethics in educational research. One interesting question was how to formualte such research without contributing to and perpetuating practices you disapprove of or are uneasy about.
Any thoughts on this?
I want to add some context to what Matthew just described. For example, when you intend to study a group of students who are seen by others as 'deviant', there's the risk of exposing them to the entire school and therefore, they may become publicly known as 'deviant'. Another potentially harmful effect would be that if you don't make your study objective clear and explain the rationale to these young people, they may think the reason they are of interest to you is because they are 'deviant' thus further reinforce such kind of negative image of themselves.
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