Puppeteer of electronic gear,
From your link about Androgogy, (happily not the same as androgyny…)
“John Dewey believed formal schooling was falling short of its potential. Dewey emphasized
learning through various activities rather than traditional teacher-focused curriculum. He
believed children learned more from guided experience than authoritarian instruction. He
ascribed to a learner-focused education philosophy. He held that learning is life not just
preparation for life.”
Right ON!!
That’s what I’ve been thinking. Learning is life as much as anything else, and it involves the
whole of the learning being, that’s us… and all learning is about life first, and some subset
of life , second…
Which means that a teacher deals not only with “materials” “learning objectives” “student
outputs” “measureable results”, but also with the mystery of living, which actually, believe it
or not, is the MORE IMPORTANT part of the whole education equation.
Not to say I understand how to do that “addressing of the whole person”, because for one, I
don’t like this value free word…”addressing” and for another I don’t have the experience
that a teacher brings to the process that enables them to show up themselves fully, and
meet their students who are also showing up fully, in a common endeavor that “leads to”
learning.
Wouldn’t mind learning how to do that….
