Great quotes from TAASA

Here's a quote that Debbie Morrison highlighted in her review of the book.


“The function of the What’s-Worth-Knowing Questions Curriculum is to put two ideas into clear focus. The first is that the art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge…The second idea is that question asking…has to deal with problems that are perceived as useful and realistic to the learner.” Teaching As a Subversive Activity (p 81)


She ends her review with links to the following pages

• The Neil Postman Information Page, neilpostman.org
• Neil Postman, Wikipedia
• A Not-so-new Recipe for A New Culture of Learning, Online Learning Insights

See also the summary on Wikipedia:

The inquiry method is motivated by Postman and Weingartner's recognition that good learners and sound reasoners center their attention and activity on the dynamic process of inquiry itself, not merely on the end product of static knowledge. They write that certain characteristics are common to all good learners (Postman and Weingartner, 31–33), saying that all good learners have:

• Self-confidence in their learning ability
• Pleasure in problem solving
• A keen sense of relevance
• Reliance on their own judgment over other people's or society's
• No fear of being wrong
• No haste in answering
• Flexibility in point of view
• Respect for facts, and the ability to distinguish between fact and opinion
• No need for final answers to all questions, and comfort in not knowing an answer to difficult questions rather than settling for a simplistic answer

In an attempt to instill students with these qualities and behaviors, a teacher adhering to the inquiry method in pedagogy must behave very differently from a traditional teacher. Postman and Weingartner suggest that inquiry teachers have the following characteristics (pp. 34–37):

• They avoid telling students what they "ought to know".
• They talk to students mostly by questioning, and especially by asking divergent questions.
• They do not accept short, simple answers to questions.
• They encourage students to interact directly with one another, and avoid judging what is said in student interactions.
• They do not summarize students' discussion.
• They do not plan the exact direction of their lessons in advance, and allow it to develop in response to students' interests.
• Their lessons pose problems to students.
• They gauge their success by change in students' inquiry behaviors (with the above characteristics of "good learners" as a goal).

LINK to Inquiry Education

(when you type in "wiki teaching as a subversive activity," you get this article)

2019: Let's organize a major online conference about "Teaching as a Subversive Activity." #50yearsOfSubversiveTeaching

Let's celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publishing of Teaching as a Subversive Activity (TAASA) by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner.  
1.  The conference does not need to be in a place

http://50yearsofsubversiveteaching.blogspot.com/2016/10/2019-lets-organize-major-online.html   =   tinyURL.com/postman50

2.  We don't even need to wait until 2019 to start the celebration

You can find this post at tinyURL.com/50yearspostman
Highlights of the next three years could include

>> Let's make a list of blogposts and reviews that help newcomers learn more about the Postman approach.

>>  #50yearsOfSubversiveTeaching   Let's come up with a better hashtag than  #50yearsOfSubversiveTeaching

>> Let's spread the Wikipedia article about inquiry based instruction.

GO HERE

>> Let's come up with a better name for the method that does not use the word "-based".  Can we find a phrase that does not use a hyphen?
LINK TO THE BOOK on Amazon Let's collect clicks and encourage classes of students to post videos to review this blog and the blogposts mentioned here.   

Let's encourage the next two million teachers to each spend some time reading chapter 12 of TAASA.  

>> Let's give a THANK YOU to the web managers who have posted PDF copies of the book for us to download.   Search "neil postman teaching as a subversive activity pdf" and you'll see Arjutatoys.com.  THANK YOU!
ALSO a site in ZAMBIA Please send additional 

Here is the start of the LIST of reviews and blog posts.  Please suggest more links by writing to ManyPosters@gmail.com  and Trintaanos2015@gmail.com.   Send me a text message to make sure I hunt for your email message.  Phone (+1) 954 646 8246

Steve McCrea
Fan of Postman   ManyPosters@gmail.com

============================================= 
author   Arnold Dodge
title  Teaching as a Subversive Activity
link http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arnold-dodge/teaching-as-a-subversive-_b_5724706.html

GO HERE

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
author  Debbie Morrision   May 12, 2014
title  Three Bold and Fresh Ideas for Education in ‘Teaching as a Subversive Activity’
link https://onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/bold-and-fresh-ideas-for-education-in-teaching-as-a-subversive-activity/
EMAIL  debbiemorrison505@gmail.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
author
title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
author
title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
author
title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
author
title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
author
title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
author
title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

author
title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

author
title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

author
title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

author
title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

author
title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

author
title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

author
title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

author
title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

author
title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

author
title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

author
title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

author
title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
author title
link
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Also available as a link to this page: http://tinyurl.com/postman50
http://tinyurl.com/50postman