B is for burqa, C is for censorship: The
miseducative effects of censoring Muslim girls and women's sartorial discourse.
He stated, "the theory provides a template for organizing analysis of when service-learning is
miseducative (con) or educative (pro), and the theory can be a guide for the design of better service-learning classes" (p.
For Dewey (1938/1997), educative experiences, as opposed to those
miseducative experiences, align the interaction between what one thinks (internal) is right and what one does (external) that is right.
For some experiences are
miseducative. Any experience is
miseducative that has the effect of arresting or distorting growth of further experience.
Montessori conceived her casa dei bambini in response to children living in the demoralizing,
miseducative squalor of an urban tenement district, Rome's San Lorenzo Quarter, whose horrors she describes at some length, much as Waters has described those at Berkeley's King School before its transformation by ESY.
Dewey (1997) insisted that all teaching and learning is made up of experiences, and those experiences can be "educative" or "
miseducative".
It can be understood as reaching back around to the concerns Dervin et al.'s article raises at the beginning of the Issue and expanding the platform of critique around how key constructs in the field, such as "culture" (and the often conflated concept of "race") as well as "identity" and "difference" are often used in
miseducative ways.
It should be stressed that value-added measurement of teachers not only neglects the ontological side of teaching but, by escalating the stakes attached to high-stakes testing, will also likely exacerbate the
miseducative effects of high-stakes testing by compelling teachers to resort to desperate means to boost their students' scores to save their jobs (Madaus, Russell, & Higgins, 2009).
She then discusses populations that have been excluded from education, including women, minorities, and animals, and examines implications such as how education shapes individuals and cultures, that culture is curriculum, and that cultures and educational agents can be
miseducative as well as educative.
What this research finds is that most students in most courses are provided with
miseducative forms of socialization towards cultural diversity.
But Dewey (1938) noted that not all experiences lead to understanding and growth, "Any experience is
miseducative that has the effects of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience" (p.
The main task for the supervisor is to provide enough support for the practicum experience to be educational and growth producing rather than damaging and "
miseducative" (Dewey, 1938/1973, p.