Rolfe Windward <IBALWIN@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Rolfe Windward (IBALWIN@mvs.oac.ucla.edu)
Sun, 17 Sep 95 11:33 PDT
Greetings to XMCA, it's good to be back. I am a doctoral candidate
specializing in curriculum theory at UCLA's Graduate School of Education &
Information Science and am in the process of gathering and coding data for my
dissertation. After 18 years of teaching secondary school life science and
computer science, designing curriculum & evaluation from the seat of the pants
(so to speak), it seemed a good idea to pursue and articulate the theory(s)
underlying my practice. I am perhaps most influenced by chaos theory and the
work of the curriculum theorist William E. Doll, Jr. although many of my
underlying assumptions have been affected by Paul Feyerabend, Jerome Bruner,
Jay Lemke, Harrison C. White, Gerald Edelman, Stanley Salthe, Nel Noddings,
Ron Gallimore, Seymour Sarason, Claudia Strauss, and George Lakoff.
My primary interest(s) at the moment is focused upon "alternative" science
learning contexts and, in particular, the ways student and teacher beliefs
are altered and/or amplified by the selection mechanisms inherent in shifting
between curricular "types" ("standard" classroom, summer science program,
distance learning program). Important data memos at the moment are centered
upon affect (relationships between actors), biography (teleonomic criteria),
and ambage & ambiguity tradeoffs (individual control projects).
Rolfe Windward
UCLA GSE&IS
ibalwin@mvs.oac.ucla.edu