Subject: Feedback Loops

Posted by Bill Ellis on 2/9/2006
In Reply To:Feedback Loops Posted by John Gunkler on 2/9/2006

Message:

On 06, Feb 2006, at 12:22 PM, John Gunkler wrote:

> t... research found was that it was possible to change racist
> "attitudes" by getting people to behave in non-racist ways. ...
BE:
To bring this back to the classroom, it was Paulo Friere who reminded us that authoritarian, hierarchal, competetive schools perpetuated an Authoritarian, hierarchal, competetive
society. It is not what we teach from which students learn
it is how we teach.
If we want a cooperative society we should have a cooperative
learning method. If we want students to think on their own we
have to free them from curricula, textbooks, and teachers and give them the freedom, the right, the resources, and the opportunity to learn what they want, when they want, and how they want.

This suggests that the K-12 Discussion should read Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society," Holt's "Learning All of the Time," and Gatto's "Dumbing us Down" and think our-of-the-box for new options for learning.

IMHO
Bill Ellis
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