@sharemath Sigh. Many many times. The brain doesn't 'attend' or 'learn'. Human beings do that. Of course, human beings can't do that without brains being involved. This well-worn point doesn't undermine the value & importance of neuroscience. But it's important to speak sensibly about it.
@3dancingfeet@DanaPalubiak By the time Hirst was at Cambridge he'd undergone a radical change of heart, believing that starting points for educational knowledge were practical detailed contexts in schools and HE. He claimed not to think that curriculum organisation should mirror the Forms of Knowledge.
@BarbaraBleiman Perhaps some people's social media posts have always been 'very poor use of time', but I mustn't generalise here. Decent educators don't generalise, especially about phenomena open to a huge range of interpretations, such as 'group work', 'pair work', 'inquiry teaching/learning'
@dperkinsed The main problem with saying inquiry teaching doesn't work is that the phrase 'inquiry teaching' doesn't identify one specific identifiable approach. You might as well try to generalise about taking pills, being born in Birmingham or having a face like Michael Gove's..
Generalising about the lack of efficacy of 'group work' in schools resembles generalising about the heritability of the gene for being a witch.
Or saying that taking pills is good/bad for your health.
Or saying that games are a waste of time....
@3dancingfeet@DanaPalubiak I knew Paul Hirst fairly well, though not really close. He was HOD of Education at Cambridge Uni when I worked there. Had dinner with him in college early in my time there. I asked him about the 'Forms of Knowledge'. He said, irritably, 'I've never been allowed to forget them.'
@archer_rs I've seen ten healthy people over the last few weeks, each of them over 90 years old, and each one of them smokes heavily. I've always known that smoking doesn't cause cancer. This just proves that yet again... Evil medical people. Nearly as bad as some of those climatologists.
@dperkinsed Paradoxically, one of the ways of becoming 'aware' that there's no such thing as critical thinking in the absence of content knowledge, is engaging in critical thinking about the very issue. The truth is that much critical thinking is indeed content-specific, but *not all of it.*
@DanaPalubiak@3dancingfeet Why assume that an appropriate sequence for one student would be just as appropriate for another? What empirical research could possibly establish such a thing? See 'Knowing and learning: from Hirst to Ofsted'
@3dancingfeet@artsonthemoveco My attitude to PE:
January 1963 Ferociously cold winter. Secondary school. School pitch covered with nearly a foot of snow. Rugger impossible. So we had to 'run' round the pitch in our PE shorts, plimsolls, etc. Some days max temperature only 21Β°F. Teacher orders. Did he have to?
Judging the effectiveness of teaching approaches with labels such as 'inquiry learning', 'discovery learning', 'direct instruction', project-based learning, student-centred learning, etc.
But each label is applied to various things.
Would you say 'all drugs are healing'?
@3dancingfeet@artsonthemoveco Thanks for this. School sports days often a 'political' trigger in the UK in recent decades, sports events in which all could succeed not popular with some. I asked students what they'd think of a compulsory competitive music school event that parents attended. They weren't keen.
@3dancingfeet@artsonthemoveco Thanks for this. School sports days often a 'political' trigger in the UK in recent decades, sports events in which all could succeed not popular with some. I asked students what they'd think of a compulsory competitive music school event that parents attended. They weren't keen.
@3dancingfeet@artsonthemoveco Wrote about this kind of thing once.. in
Do Children Have Privacy Rights in the Classroom?
Studies in Philosophy and Education 20: 245β254, 2001.
@3dancingfeet Teachers would shout every now and then,
"Come on, you wet, Davis!" This went on for years.
I'm not sure what they thought they were achieving. Ever. They were PE teachers....
(Sorry.. apologies to all the excellent and highly intelligent PE teachers throughout the world.)