EDUC 1F95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Private Good, Consumerism, Higher-Order Thinking
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The metaphors we use say a great deal about implicit assumptions about teaching and learning. The language of teaching and learning is rich in metaphor. Teaching that material to the class was like pulling teeth! . Today"s lesson built nicely on what we saw yesterday . For the young men of the upper and middle classes, education consisted in a nearly unrelieved diet of greek and latin . Must inform a general vocabulary about education that any competent speaker of the language can recognize. Must be extended to the way educators talk about the various aspects of teaching. Must make sense in the context of education. Must contain implications or recommendations for how education should be. Three dominant metaphors: teaching as building/constructing, teaching as guiding, learning as development/growth. Main purpose of education is for the learner to systematically acquire a body of basic knowledge. Situates the teacher at the centre of the learning experience.
