In four to five paragraphs, you should draft your group’s theory on education and/or schooling.   You should at least  be able to identify the primary belief(s) that will inform all the aspects of your project.

You should reference (with appropriate citations) any of the theories we have read that have influenced your position.  Influence  does not just mean the theories you adopt.  Those positions with which you completely disagree can also be said to have influenced your position.

You may but are not required to identify contemporary or historical examples of your philosophy of schooling and/or education in action.  Or historical/contemporary examples of schooling and/or education that you see as problematic and against which your theory will take shape.

Assignment Graded On

1) Timely completion

2) You put forth a thoughtful theory about one (or some combination) of the following:  education, school, learning, personhood, and the idea of man.

3) You clearly acknowledge how your theory reflects, supports, or challenges the ideas we have read in the course.