Category: Educator’s Journey
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The Hero’s Journey is the Educator’s Journey: Star Wars versus Educator Professional Development
I’m just riffing here… Building on my idea that Joseph Campbell’s monomyth connects with professional development pathways in education. Here are the 12 stages of the hero’s journey with reference to Star Wars and Adult Literacy & Numeracy professional development… The ordinary world – limited awareness of a problem [ACT 1] The Evil Empire oppresses…
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Why improve your teaching? Why embed literacy and numeracy?
I’ve just started reading The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman. His introduction struck me as exactly what I would like to write for the book I’d like to write on how to improve your teaching practice by embedding literacy and numeracy. So I’ve cannibalised it. Here’s my version and the introduction to my mythical book below. Tell me…
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What do I need to do next to transform my professional development course into something with wider appeal?
I work in what is possibly the most boring profession in the world. This is not just the world of adult literacy and numeracy education, but adult literacy and numeracy professional development. Need I say more… Ok, great… you’re still reading. Actually, I’ve given up explaining to people what I do. To avoid the glazed…
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The Educator’s Journey Part 2: The Reality of Professional Development in Adult Education
In my last post I talked about how I’ve adapted The Hero’s Journey to my own purposes. Here below it’s The Educator’s Journey. I think this will find it’s way into my course for next year. I used it today with a group of my NCALNE (Voc) students who are tutors at a Polytech. I…
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The Educator’s Journey Part 1: The Reality of Professional Development in Adult Education
This is my first version of this. I’ve stolen it from Nancy Duarte in her excellent book Resonate. She in turn stole it from The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler who in turn got it from Joseph Campbell who wrote it down in The Hero’s Journey. Campbell pinched from Carl Jung who stole it from our…