http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/educationaltheory tag posts with educationaltheory Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:27:28 -0800 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:27:28 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/54721/Advice-on-finding-a-nonteaching-but-educationrelated-job-for-a-college-student I need to find a summer job. Ideally I'd like to do something related to education, as I'm hoping to work in education (explained in more detail inside) when I'm finished with my own education - but I am much more interested in research and theory than in classroom work, so I'm having a hard time coming up with ideas. I'm interested in ideas that are very tangentially related to education as well as ones that are very related. I am a second year in college, majoring in philosophy and human development, and I'd like to be an educational reformer in some capacity some day - probably most practically by creating or taking over some sort of experimental school and changing at least a couple of people's lives while publishing revolutionary articles on the philosophy of education in academic journals. You can tell by this plan that I am incredibly idealistic about the whole thing at this point.<br> <br> I would like to do something this summer that will shake up my idealism about some or all aspects of this plan without destroying it. The only somewhat promising idea I've had so far is to work at a <a href="http://www.orangetwin.com/village/index.html">commune</a> to get an idea of what being part of an experimental community would be like - <b>I am interested in more abstract ideas like this one as well as more specifically education-related ones.</b><br> <br> On the more directly educational side, I already have experience with tutoring young elementary school kids, which is fun but not very substantial. On the other hand, the idea of something like the <a href="www.breakthroughcollaborative.org">Breakthrough Collaborative</a> program in which I would be completely in charge of a classroom and planning classwork for two months sounds pretty overwhelming to me at this point in my personal development - and I'm more interested in teaching teachers how to teach than in being a classroom teacher myself, anyway.<br> <br> I am also interested in hearing about any other resources related to this sort of educational work (books, people, organizations, etc). tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.54721 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:27:28 -0800 education jobs summerjobs college life idealism academia educationalphilosophy educationaltheory educationreform philosophy summer bubukaba