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 Co-constructive inquiry! I think that it was an effective way to encourage discussion – and add agency to my classroom experience. We got to create the class – which made me mindful of the way that I approached the course, my peers, and the concept of “learning” something. I usually define “learning” in a classroom setting with facts – and while I can’t recite a lot of concrete stuff from this semester, learning how to think about learning was useful. Retrospectively it felt like a huge experiment in meta-cognition, as we were forced to use what we know from actually being students and thinkers to talk about how those two roles interact.

This semester I have been working on a project on Latin-American educational experiences – in being frustrated with my research I came to realize that a better understanding of the brain could specifically do a lot in terms of the politics surrounding bi lingual education. The neural research is there – however there does not seem to be enough communication between the science ‘world’ and the education ‘world’.