Supporting material

    Didactic education: The modern past

    Following are a number of famous people and writers reflecting on what they hated most about their school     days. Their stories are telling of some of the more painfully experienced aspects of didactic education

Winston Churchill’s school days
Yan Phou Lee’s School days
George Orwell’s school days
Charles Darwin’s school days
Audre Lorde’s school days
Mahatma Gandhi’s school days

    Authentic Education: More recent times

Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Emile’s education
Maria Montessori on ‘free, natural’ education
John Dewey on progressive education
A.S. Neill’s Summerhill
Rabindranath Tagore’s school at Shantiniketan

    Transformative education: new learning

Bill Gates on American Schools
The MET: No classes, no grades and 94% graduation rate
Class work
Discovery 1, Christchurch
Ivan Illich on ‘Deschooling’
I did it all by myself
Paulo Freire on education which liberates

Keywords

Didactic
Authentic
Transformative
Architectonic
Discursive
Intersubjective
Socio-cultural
Proprietary
Epistemological
Pedagogical
Moral

Knowledge processes

Experiencing the known
Experiencing the new
Conceptualising by naming
Conceptualising with theory
Analysing functionally
Analysing critically
Applying appropriately
Applying creatively

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