Sunday, July 29, 2007
Role of Education and the meaning of learning
Read something interesting from a book...
Eudcation can be a vehicle for social change. - Freire (1993)
"Education's role is to challenge inequality and dominant myths rather than socialize students into status quo. Learning is directed toward social change and transforming the world, and 'true' learning empowers student to challenge oppression in their lives" - Stage, Muller, Kinzie, and Simmons (1998).
Freire worked as an educator in Brazil and has developed his theories of education and social change as he taught illiterate peasnats to read and write.
More and more educationist are advancing the teaching of critical thinking in students.
E.g Tompkins (1991)
"We tell ourselves we need to teach our students to think critically so that they can detect the manipulations of advertising, analyze the fallacious rhetoric of politicians and expose the ideology of popular TV shows, resist the stereotypes of class, race and gender...But I have come to think more and more that what really matters ...is not so much what we talk about in class as what we do...The classroom is a microcosm of the world; it is the chance we have to practice whatever ideals we cherish. The kind of classroom situation one creates is the acid test of what it is one really stands for."
Surface learning vs Deep learning (Marton and Sadjo
SL - occurs when students concentrated on memorising the facts, focused on the discrete elements of the reading, failed to differentiate between evidence and information, were unreflective, and saw the tasks as an external imposition.
DL - occurs when students focused on what the author meant, related new information to what they already knew and had experienced, worked to organize and structure the content, and saw the reading as an important source of learning.
Eudcation can be a vehicle for social change. - Freire (1993)
"Education's role is to challenge inequality and dominant myths rather than socialize students into status quo. Learning is directed toward social change and transforming the world, and 'true' learning empowers student to challenge oppression in their lives" - Stage, Muller, Kinzie, and Simmons (1998).
Freire worked as an educator in Brazil and has developed his theories of education and social change as he taught illiterate peasnats to read and write.
More and more educationist are advancing the teaching of critical thinking in students.
E.g Tompkins (1991)
"We tell ourselves we need to teach our students to think critically so that they can detect the manipulations of advertising, analyze the fallacious rhetoric of politicians and expose the ideology of popular TV shows, resist the stereotypes of class, race and gender...But I have come to think more and more that what really matters ...is not so much what we talk about in class as what we do...The classroom is a microcosm of the world; it is the chance we have to practice whatever ideals we cherish. The kind of classroom situation one creates is the acid test of what it is one really stands for."
Surface learning vs Deep learning (Marton and Sadjo
SL - occurs when students concentrated on memorising the facts, focused on the discrete elements of the reading, failed to differentiate between evidence and information, were unreflective, and saw the tasks as an external imposition.
DL - occurs when students focused on what the author meant, related new information to what they already knew and had experienced, worked to organize and structure the content, and saw the reading as an important source of learning.
# posted by Mr. Andrew Kon @ 4:44 PM 
