EDUC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Dewey, Critical Pedagogy, Fellow Traveller
16 Dec 2019
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The mind is constantly making connections between lived and learned experiences to new encounters and experiences. Children"s impulses and interests must be starting points for schools curriculum. If a kid doesn"t have interest in an activity they are less likely to learn from it. Relevance, purpose, and connection to immediate daily life. Remove context = removed relevance, schools should be relevant and connect to student"s daily life. Critical pedagogy-- relevance to child"s life important inseparability of knower and known, knowledge always changing and only valid in relation to individual and how relates to his her life experience. 6 organizational framework and principles for schools: education finds genesis (origin) and purpose in child. Tasks without known purpose reduce desire to complete task successfully and fighting child"s nature is counterproductive. Begin with child"s ideas, impulses, and interests and make education out of that.
