Rose's Home Life
Where did Mike Rose grow up?
He grew up in Pennsylvania with Italian immigrant parents.
What subject did Mike Rose struggle with growing up?
Algebra
What were some of the books Mike Rose wrote?
“Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education,” “The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker.”
What was of great meaning to Rose's mother in her work?
In the midst of the difficult work and difficult circumstances there was great meaning in the kind of social dimension of it.
What did Mike Rose argue with care and eloquence?
He argued that we risk too narrow a view of the way the physical, the human, and the cognitive blend in all kinds of learning and labor.
What did Mike Rose’s mother work as?
She worked as a waitress.
Who was the teacher that Rose mentions?
Jack McFarland
Where was Mike Rose a research professor at?
UCLA (specifically at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies)
What understanding did his mother’s work help Rose achieve?
His mother’s work helped Rose understand the “complex memory work that workers in restaurants were able to do”.
How and when did Mike Rose start thinking about the “spirit of education”?
He started thinking about it his senior year of high school; it happened when he ended up on the “vocational track” during high school.
What did Rose witness growing up?
He witnessed the intelligence and thought it takes to do physical work.
What happened in Rose’s junior year of high school?
His entrance test got mixed up with someone else’s last name Rose and he was put in a college preparatory track.
What does Rose strive for in his own work and with students he has worked for?
He strives to try and figure out how you blend the strands of different types of learning.
How did Rose’s mother see her job as a waitress?
She saw it as a way to be out in the world and as social field.
Why does Rose think that remembering a memory or moment is powerful?
He thinks that they live on in memory for a reason, that they help shape who we are and where we go.
What did Mike and his father do until he became too sick?
They would take the bus downtown and go spend time with his mother while she worked.
How did Jack McFarland help Mike Rose?
His teacher gave Rose a book to read every other week, and that helped Rose start thinking about the “spirit of education”.
What was one of the last subjects Rose thought and wrote about?
“Public School and the Social Fabric”
What trend happens in the West that Rose talks about?
With new technological breakthroughs and marvels, people start looking down on people who do manual labor.
What was Mike Rose’s opinion about meaningfulness?
He says that meaningfulness is a more fluid and rich and variable concept then we tend to imagine.
How did Mike Rose see his mother while she was working?
He saw his mother as an “impressive display of competence”.
What did Rose say about teachers who made a difference in his life?
“Such teachers don’t merely inspire thought. They give students a sense of what opportunity feels like.”
Mike was the first person in his family to do what?
He was the first person to attend college.
What was Rose able to do with the training in cognitive psychology and thinking?
He was able to articulate better and make connections between his mothers work and research taking place in research laboratories.
BONUS QUESTION: What date did this podcast air?
January 7, 2010