10/17/08

So I have a lead for Hanahauoli School. One of the student's mom from karate said that she has a friend that send three of her kids to Hanahauoli and is more than willing to help me "get my foot in the door" with observing. I definitely want to go and observe and see what it's like there. Then I can seriously think about evaluating their curriculum for my dissertation or not.

On a side note, I talked to my ED 631 professor at Chaminade yesterday. He gave me some pointers, but basically he was saying that I have to read, read, and read. Some people use EndNote to organize their articles. However, I've been using EndNote, and I'm not liking it so far. It's not very user friendly. I might just end up organizing my articles in an Excel file. I just downloaded BookEnds. Which program is going to do help keep what I read organized? Sente? BibDesk? Papers? I'm lost.

10/11/08

I was thinking, perhaps evaluating Keio Academy would be more possible because I actually went to that school. I have no connection to Hanahauoli School, so I don't know how feasible it would be to evaluate their curriculum/school. Then again, Keio Academy is a high school, and I'm not interested in high school, so I'd have to find a way to get permission to evaluate the Keio elementary school in Japan. I just tried a real brief search to see if I could find articles related to Keio and I couldn't find any. Maybe I'll be the first? Of course there are probably a zillion already written about it in Japanese.

10/10/08

Is evaluating a curriculum/school a legitimate dissertation topic? I was thinking Keio Academy, but that would cost a lot. What about Hanahauoli School?

I think Hanahauoli School would be great. Montessori has been documented, Waldolf is documented, but Hanahauoli School hasn't, right?