Thanks for sharing the link. The student voices come through clearly in the
posts. My older son and I were discussion schools the other day, and he
pulled out a handbook he used in his youth counseling work. One section of
the handbook shares ideas for a 'perfect school' collected at a conference
of Washington State students from alternative high schools.
I was struck by how much their thinking aligns with what seems to be to the
model I see coalescing in the thoughts of some progressive educators.
Here are some of their voices.
"We think the perfect school would be a school where the teachers not as
much teachers as they are students, and everybody works in a group together
on the same projects. And the teachers and students would have respect for
each other."
"Student can pursue their learning in or outside of the school, in formal
course work or independent studies. In each case the student writes a
contract with a stated goal of learning."
"The governance of the schools should be handled through your subcommittees,
where anyone can join and participate."
"I want to learn history by like traveling... not traveling, but like going
on field trips, going places - museums and stuff. I don't want to learn from
a book. I want to actually do things."
EduCon 2.2 should help provide some more definition to the new model that is
struggling to emerge from the pedagogical mists.
Fred
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Elizabeth Davis <lizbdavis@gmail.com>wrote:
> Check out this post by Chris Lehmann:
> Visions of School The Student
> Perspective<
> http://practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1214-Visions-of-School-The-Student-Perspective.html
> >
> -Liz
>
> Liz Davis
> http://www.edtechpower.blogspot.com
>
>
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