[For the next issue of the journal At Bâbord , whose case will focus on the digital world]
I thought this issue was the opportunity to share with you some of my best places on the Internet in education. Class I, somewhat arbitrarily, into three categories: journals; sites, blogs.
Note as not to unduly burden the text, I do not give the url of the sites I'm talking about: you find them easily, however, simply by putting a few keywords in my site description in a search engine, like Google.
journals
As an academic, I would say that in addition to emails, with regard to academic journals me the Internet more useful and irreplaceable. It should perhaps be, as I worked in magazines in prehistoric times, I mean there are only two decades to understand. Let me tell you.
At that time, let's say you find an article you might be interested, either because it is quoted in a book or article, or after searching in sheets or in one of those gigantic Index and difficult to handle than us for that. Then you cross your fingers and hope that this review and the right number can be found at the library of your institution, if not, at least, it is in a library that is available to you and where you will have to go, otherwise you need bring a copy of the article, sometimes from afar, which took a long time.
Today? You go to any website offering reviews and look in the archives that exist (or will exist soon). You enjoy to subscribe to magazines that you like: you will receive an email when the next edition appears, with description of its contents. You can read the articles that interest you online, searchable by author names, keywords, subject, in all content indexed journals, and of course instant access to several of the articles cited by simple cross references. It's fast, efficient and valuable. We no longer seek we find, to paraphrase Picasso.
My area is the educational philosophy and magazines I read are mostly the following, my favorite small: Studies in Philosophy and Education, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Theory and Research in Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Ethics and Education. In Quebec, the doxa philosophical education is outlined and defended in the journal Teaching Life, which has a website.
Finally, as I like to know what is said in research in education, I am also a subscriber (virtually) in the Journal of Educational Research.
there any disadvantages or risks to all this? I would say I am wary of what an incentive overload, paradoxically, read too little, or at least to read too superficial and too quickly. I think, perhaps wrongly, to escape ... at least for now. I must say that I print a lot and probably too much (poor trees ...).
sites
The Net is not very rich in both philosophical education. But there are still some interesting places, for example that suggests that we think and rethink the school.
If you can read English, however, know that there is an Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Education on the Web. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is full of interesting texts to philosophize about education, as the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy - the latter is not free, but your institution, if any, may already be subscribed.
What programs and practices in education, were tested by credible research? What were the results of this research? The Best Evidence Encyclopedia helps sort out these critical issues.
Simply follow the news in education is a daunting task. A colleague of mine UQAR Jean Bernatchez, brings on his site called Management and school governance, a valuable aggregation of texts including several of those I would not have missed. Mr. Bernatchez brings this to students, but around the world can enjoy.
To remain in the category: Information about the world of education ', but this time with more emphasis on research, for quality education by Jacques Tondreau worth the detour.
The creator of the Direct Instruction, Siegfried Engelmann, has a website, called by his nickname: Zig. He challenges a lot of beliefs that are in some cases as many truths of the Gospel in education.
few years ago, I would have given a fortune to have found the Dictionary of Education, Ferdinand Buisson, a true compendium of thought and wisdom progressive education published under Jules Ferry (Bush is a radical and a humanist for whom I have great affection ). Well, a version is online!
I do not even quote sites MELS or SSC or unions: it goes without saying. And it's been great. I still have in fact just the place to mention the Belgian site The Democratic School, which is the site of the Call for a Democratic School (APED), powered by people whom I feel close enough as Michel Delord, among whom there are many things, including writing a training analyst maths (I did not say an expert on teaching math, write it down!) very interesting, Rudolf Bkouche.
Blogs
As I write these lines, Lise Bissonnette gained much attention for speaking bloggers as a "community of gossips. The fact is that it was probably largely due. Largely but not entirely: because there are exceptions, and I think she should. Anyway, I frequent blogs (I have one myself) and some will be useful and sometimes valuable. To stay in education, the ones I visit most are happy.
I'm not teaching my specialty and often does not lead me on dry land. But I like to have echoes of what is happening and what teachers think. I hope so, at least, have a window on the environment.
Some blogs are for me such windows. I read for example, with pleasure and profit, the texts of a certain Professor hidden; profit or gull; tickets who want the Chicken Soup for the ass, and those of Prof. nevertheless, or yet another teacher and even a teacher who sees the world bleeding. Mario
bluntly is the name of the blog maintained by Mario Asselin, who works elsewhere in this issue. We have disagreements he and I quite defined, but its my site a rich source of subjects for reflection, especially on technology, but also on the news, schools and many other topics.
Network for the Advancement of Education in Quebec has a blog, which also face many of the ideas with which I often disagree, but that deserve reflection.
There. Good hits, good luck and happy sailing. Normand Baillargeon
(Baillargeon.normand @ uqam.ca)
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