Education Readings
Happy birthday to John Dewey, visionary educator, social reformer,
psychologist, and philosopher. Dewey was central to the development of the
so-called progressive movement in education, which emphasizes the importance of
student participation and meaningful activity in the classroom.
Dewey began his career as a classroom teacher. After becoming a
professor of philosophy, he shifted much of his attention to education,
founding the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and writing School and
Society, which argued for the need for collaborative practical experimentation
in the classroom. His emphasis on practical skills and learning by doing
upended the inherited wisdom of the time, which valued obedience and rote memorization.
John Dewey died in 1952. Over the course of his long career, he
published 40 books and 700 articles on a wide variety of topics, and indelibly
influenced the world’s classrooms with his meaning-oriented, democratic
approach to teaching and learning.
This weeks readings
Every week Bruce Hammonds and I collect articles
to share with teachers to encourage a creative approach to teaching and
learning. I welcome suggested articles, so if you come across a gem, email it
to me at allanalach@inspire.net.nz
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| Howard Gardner |
One of the most popular ideas in education
is applied in ways that its creator never intended.The big mistake: In popular culture, and
in our educational system, the theory of multiple intelligences has too often
been conflated with learning styles, reducing Gardner’s premise of a
multifaceted system back to a single “preferred intelligence”: Students are
visual or auditory learners, for example, but never both. We’ve stumbled into
the same old trap—we’ve simply traded one intelligence for another.’
Students on first-name basis with
teachers as titles become old school
If Not Learning Styles Theory, Then What?
An alternative take on the learning styles
debate.
Beautiful Learning
'We use that word to describe things that
we find inspiring or awe-some in some way. Something that makes us want to stop
an linger. Something that we hope to experience again. Which for some
reason
led me to wonder, why don’t we use that word very often about learning? I mean
certainly, there is such a thing as “beautiful learning,” a moment in our own
lives or that we observe in others that inspires, that we hope to experience
again.’
Why do teachers find it so difficult to
change the way they teach?
http://bit.ly/2Aq7Yfor wondered why?’
A Message To High School Students Who
Hate High School
Here is why you hate it.
‘Of course, it is not only high school
math I am against. I believe that every single subject taught in
high school is
a mistake. What I write here will infuriate teachers, but teachers are not my
enemy. It isn’t their fault. They are cogs in a system over which they have no
control. I believe there are many great teachers, and I believe that teaching
and teachers are very important.’
Carol Dweck Explains The 'False' Growth
Mindset That Worries Her
Do we really want computerized systems
controlling the learning process?
Misreading the Reading Wars Again (and Again)
‘But the short version is the reading war
claim that we are failing reading instruction is a long history of false claims
grounded in selling reading programs.’
From Bruce’s ‘goldie oldies’ file:
The urge to collect is strong in people of all ages
Guy Claxton’s Magnificent Eight
‘In his book 'What’s the Point of School' he outlines what good
learners do (as against being a 'successful' students). He has sorted the
dispositions of good learners into what he calls his magnificent eight’.
Teachers need to encourage all of them.’
Time for a rebirth of the creative spirit?
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