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If we want to transform the failing model, we need a new analogy for how that model is supposed to work, Robinson argues. We treat education like industrial manufacturing when, in reality, it's closer to organic farming. In farming, crop has different needs at different times in order to produce the greatest yield.
Why not apply the process to education?
Robinson distills his solution of so-called "organic education" into four key principles:
Health: Promoting the development and well-being of the whole student, intellectually, physically, spiritually, and socially.
Ecology: Recognizing the vital interdependence of all of these aspects of development, within each student and the community as a whole.
Fairness: Cultivating the individual talents and potential of all students, whatever their circumstances and respects the roles and responsibilities of those who work with them.
Care: Creating optimum conditions for students' development, based on compassion, experience, and practical wisdom.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Sir+Ken+Robinson
Via Patti Kinney, Gust MEES
This seems like such a more humane way to see students and the educational process!
He is correct, schools are not factories that create duplicate models of a prototype. Schools are also not a business, where the latest organizational model makes the system effective. Schools are more like a community, where everyone works together to accomplish the goals developed collaboratively by all stakeholders in the community. Notice that state and federal politicians are not in the community.
Waar je allemaal niet komt met boerenverstand.