Supporting material

    Mimesis: The modern past

Aristotle on mimesis
St Benedict on the teacher and the taught
Inside Pakistan’s madrasas
Learning about bark
Confucius on becoming a learned person
A morning at the Dong-feng Kindergarten
Why should they look behind them?
Michael Apple on ideology in curriculum
A Japanese cram school

    Synthesis: More recent times

Froebel on Play as a Primary Way of Learning for Young Children
Thayer, on making curriculum relevant
Lisa Delpit on power and pedagogy
Bruner’s theory of instruction
There are moves that you make you haven’t given names to

    Reflexivity: New learning

Kress on meaning and agency
Vygotsky on the zone of proximal development
Reggio Emilia educational principles
Cazden on pedagogical ‘weaving’
‘Learning by Design’ knowledge processes
Learning by Design in the Lanyon cluster
Planning strategically … pooling Our pedagogies
He didn’t know what he didn’t know
You need to think about it!
Coaxing learners to think for themselves

Keywords

Pedagogy
Curriculum
Mimesis
Synthesis
Reflexivity

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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