Chapter 2: Life in Schools
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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