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[Judy Perry]

Well, mostly I'm just curious about what's really 'in' in ed, as
conversations with others, especially  outside of the US, would seem to
indicate that my program gave short-shrift to the broad spectrum of
current and competing (or not) theories.

For example, we got constructivism up the wahoo whereas Papert, who they
probably considered too much of a 'geek, and Dewey (I have vague and dim
memories of a passing comment) were broadly glossed over.

In general, we had two years of "objectivism is bad, constructivism
rules", more or less.

As you can see, I walked out of it unimpressed with their 'construct' of
the field...

Judy