Welcome to Ceremony:
A note from your Team:
Welcome to Ceremony, we wish you a wonderful learning experiencie. We
invite you to join us on tuesdays and thursdays every week, and every
other saturday to share your questions/ideas. We also invite you to
communicate with your co-learners using the most advanced technology
available on campus. We also invite you to learn about the program so
you will be an expert when you explain it to others. Most of the
suggested readings are in our library. When you create your own
curriculum, you will create your own reading list.
The information we remind students about on the first day of each
quarter includes:
Respond and post your responses to the 4 questions.
If you work for someone, volunteer, and/or provide a service to an
institution or individual as part of your academic plan - then you must
complete a program internship form with academic advising.
If your plan includes international travel, you can do it through an
Independent Learning Contract, please contact Michael Cliffthorne.
Keep in touch by email or on our moodle website so your colleagues know
of your work.
And, when you exit at the end of this quarter, contact us so an
evaluation can be completed.
Email:
Please use:
Subject: Ceremony-YourLastName
and write to the the faculty team.
Have a great year/quarter!
Your Team
RETURN
OUR
SOURCES
To better understand our approach to education you may read some
aspects of the foundations
of
our program, our program:
- is part of the
Twenty
Year
Vision long range plan NAS
on campus programs.
- is the praxis (in the Freirian sense) of our own
educational philosophy.
- is a
learner-centered
learning environment based in the Native American approach to learning,
Paulo
Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, (in our
learning environment we apply William Glasser's Choice Theory) and
Multiple Intelligences theory.
- emphasizes the
Evergreen
five
focii and the
expectations
of
our
Evergreen
graduates,
- follows the brain natural
learning function (you learn
what you
are interested in learning),
- 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 or
thursday), in our Saturday Theory to Praxis class, or via email
using our program list
or using our program moodle site, and by presenting our projects at the
end of our experience.
- 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)
- applies the
Multiple
Intelligences Theory (everyone is a
learner,
everyone is an intellectual), this is required reading.
- is a community of co-learners and each one of us is
in
charge of
our instruction, our curriculum and
our assessment and our main tool for this is Bloom's Taxonomy,
- is committed to
building community
by creating
our own
Covenant
and by making together this program the dream program
each one
of us
always wanted.
We
construct/justify our program
process by
studying/internalizing
(reading, seminaring, creating/delivering workshops, discussing in
small/large groups, writing our reflections via email, our moodle site,
self evaluations, talking during conferences, discussing in study
groups. and applying/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 (this is required reading)
-Education for Extinction by David Wallace Adams.
-Embracing Contraries by Peter Elbow
-The Dancing Wu
Li Masters by
Gary Zukav
-Ceremony by
Silko
-Broad and
Alien is the World by
Ciro Alegria (travellers to Peru)
-Open Veins of Latin America, by Eduardo Galeano
-Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford
-1491 by Charles C. Mann
RETURN
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
How to Quit School & Get a Real Life & Education by Grace
Llewellyn
Education for Extinction by David Wallace Adams.
The Schools Our Children Deserve by Alfie Kohn
Embracing Contraries by Peter Elbow
Human Brain Human Learning by Leslie Hart
Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford
1491 by Charles C. Mann
Inspirational Readings
5 Million Footsteps: The Transcontinental Trek of the Global Walk for a
Livable World by Greg Edblom
A note from Raul:
Wherever you attended school, you went through a system based on a
specific psychology and philosophy. I didn't think about this for
many years after graduating from college and working for 20 years
applying the same psychology and the same philosophy, helping very
actively to perpetuate a system. I wish I was invited to learn about
the kind of psychology and the philosophy of the education system I was
obligated to go through in my home country. I would have been
better equipped to be a human being in my own community.
Being in Ceremony, you have the opportunity to learn about the ideas
and theories that
support this specific program in Evergreen. At the same time you could
also learn about the education system you just went through. This
knowledge will help you develop you own emerging curriculum.
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