Restarting Learning: An appropriate model
David Hughes NPQH MA FRSA
Author at Critical Publishing, Education Development Speaker, Consultant on school cultural improvement.
I'm currently writing a book on remodelling education and I'm putting together a chapter on how you would re-build learning from a blank page.
Current educational models tend to be excessively prescriptive along an industrial model which sees the process of winnowing out learners through a series of examinations until only those deemed capable of accessing a university level of education remain.
Related to this process-led model, there seem to be assumptions about the nature of educational ability (I will refrain from using the term 'intelligence' which is used too regularly in an unspecified way.) and its distribution within the general population, which tend to self-serve the interests of those with greatest economic power.
Returning to first principles took me back to consideration of Maslow's hierarchy of human needs as a useful starting point to providing an educational experience to engage every learner.
Imagine a school designed to foster all this hierarchy of needs as a foundation for the achievement of every learner...
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5 年Very late to this party but, if we are trying to get away from the industrial model of school, like it or not it delivered what society needed workers who understood hierarchies and all the other mores needed to work in factories and other workplaces. Now of course it isn't a lot of use but is still being used with some tinkering around the edges. I often use many of the principles of the Nomadic Way in my education work as it values every person and creates opportunities for them to win and contribute to the group. #thenomadicway
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5 年Really appreciate the idea. I think examinations should be based on life lessons. Create a mock situation and see how students react to it. And evaluate them on it. We then create better citizens, better humans.
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5 年Is there a hierarchy of needs? Are things this simplistic? This linear?
Independent Thinker, Business Professor, Organizational Psychologist, OCM Expert
5 年Once again, Maslow's greatest development of this model is left out. If one wants schools to produce better citizens, then the concept of self-transcendence is an absolute must as a starting point. Koltko-Rivera, M. E. (2006). Rediscovering the later version of Maslow's hierarchy of needs: Self-transcendence and opportunities for theory, research, and unification. Review of general psychology, 10(4), 302-317
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5 年One thing that can stop your aging is Learning!???? ??