{"id":197,"date":"2014-12-27T11:13:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T18:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst403\/?p=197"},"modified":"2015-05-22T15:09:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T22:09:13","slug":"january-5-in-class-activity-core-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst403\/2014\/12\/27\/january-5-in-class-activity-core-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"May 19 & 26: In-Class Activity (Core Knowledge)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Dias, P. (1992). Cultural literacy, national curriculum: What (and how) does every Canadian student really need to know? English Quarterly, 24(3-4), 10-19.<\/p>\n

On your own, READ the following:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u2022 p.10-11 (excluding the last sentence on page 11)
\n\u2022 p.14 (Starting at \u201cReading and Knowing\u201d) to p.16 (top) to the sentence \u201cThe question remains\u2026from secondary school?\u201d<\/p>\n

As you read, consider and jot down some responses to:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1. What are Hirsch, Cheney, Ravitch, and Finn promoting and what is their rationale for doing so?
\n2. What are Dias\u2019 main concerns with respect to what Hirsch & company are advocating? What is Dias advocating for?<\/p>\n

Once you finish reading the pages above and taking notes on Questions 1-3, form a group of 3-4 people.<\/p>\n

As a group, discuss your answers to Questions 1, 2 & 3:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1. What are Hirsch, Cheney, Ravitch, and Finn promoting and what is their rationale for doing so?
\n2. What are Dias\u2019 main concerns with respect to what Hirsch & company are advocating? What is Dias advocating for?
\n3. What are some of the pros and cons of having a common and pre-determined set of required knowledge that students (K-12) must attain?<\/p>\n

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Source: Dias, P. (1992). Cultural literacy, national curriculum: What (and how) does every Canadian student really need to know? English Quarterly, 24(3-4), 10-19. On your own, READ the following: \u2022 p.10-11 (excluding the last sentence on page 11) \u2022 p.14 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst403\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst403\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst403\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst403\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst403\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst403\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst403\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst403\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst403\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edst403\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}