Your emerging
syllabus (your academic work) starts
where you are with the
knowledge you
already have and follows the natural
brain process, the order of events
might be different for different people. We suggest to start these
events when you are relaxed and ready, you may benefit from writing
down your
reflections to questions/statements similar to:
What brought you to
Evergreen?
Being in
Evergreen, what
brought you to the Patience
summer program?
- What do you
plan to do?
- How do you
plan
to do it?
- What do you
plan to learn?
- What
difference will it make?
To better understand our approach to education you may read some
aspects of the foundations
of
our program:
- it is the praxis (in the Freirian sense) of our own
educational philosophy.
- it is a student-centered
learning environment based in
Paulo
Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed,
(our learning environment uses Choice Theory)
- it emphasizes the Evergreen five
focii and the expectations
of our
Evergreen graduates,
- it follows the brain natural
learning function (you learn
what you
are interested in learning),
- it puts strong emphasis in
developing communication
skills
and use
of instructional
technology (for distance learning praxis) we share
our
learning during community visiting time (every tuesday,
thursday or every other saturday), or via email using our program
list
or using our web crossing site, and by presenting our projects at the
end of our experience.
- it uses Howard Zinn's A
People's
History of the US to help
us find
out more about who we are and why we are what we are, (search for
identity)
- it uses the Multiple
Intelligences Theory (everyone is a
learner,
everyone is an intellectual),
- all of us as co-learners are in
charge of
instruction, curriculum and
assessment and our main tool for this is Bloom's Taxonomy,
- one main group activity is to
build community
by creating
our own
covenant and by making together this program the best it could be.
We
construct/justify our program
process by
studying/internalizing
(reading, seminaring, creating/delivering workshops, discussing in
small/large groups, writing our reflections via email, web crossing,
self evaluations, talking during conferences, discussing in study
groups... and doing/using) concepts from
the following books:
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed by
Paulo Freire
-A Peoples History of the United
States by Howard Zinn
-Choice Theory by William Glasser
-Intelligence Reframed by Howard
Gardner
-The Dancing Wu Li Masters by
Gary Zukav
-Ceremony by Silko
-Broad and Alien is the World by
Ciro Alegria (travellers to Peru).
Recommended books:
Pedagogy
of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire-0826412769
Intelligence Reframed by Martin
Gardner-0465026117
A People's History of the U S by
Howard Zinn- 0060528370
The Art of Changing the Brain by
James E. Zull-1579220541
Native American Testimony-Peter
Nabokov- 0140281592
Teaching to Transgress by Bell
Hooks-0415908086
Choice Theory by William Glasser-
0060930144
Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda
Tuhiwai Smith-1856496244
Natives and Academics by Devon
Mihesuah- 0803282435 Genocide of the Mind by Marijo Moore-1560255110
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by
Steven C. Hayes-1572309555
Methodology of the Oppressed by
Chela Sandoval-0816627371