David Bowles, poeta americano e insegnate all’Università del texas di inglese e con un dottorato in educazione , ha fatto una serie di post che sostengono come l’insegnamento sia ancora all’età della pietra , che stiamo portando avanti un modello di 100 anni fa reiterandolo senza che sia efficace e coerente con quanto viene fuori dalle scienze cognitive e della psicologia.
L’ottica è quella che la scuola deve portare al lavoro (fisico o di concetto ), e quindi questo comporta di reiterare questo modello perdendo di fatto tempo in attività inutili quando di fatto il driver che spinge il bambino a imparare con efficacia è che la cosa che impara sia figa o gli porti un vantaggio.
Personalmente sono d’accordissimo. Per me era chiaro che la finalità era il lavoro e mi sono orientato così. Da questo punto di vista è stato un successo , ma le cose più interessanti le ho imparate o perché mi servivano (inglese, programmare ) o come cose totalmente esterne (grafica, musica , falegnameria).
Ad esempio non ho avuto difficoltà a imparare spagnolo e giapponese per cui avevo interesse, il francese mi faceva cagare e i 3 anni di medie a studiarlo sono passati solo a furia di bigliettini. É questo che vuole un insegnate ? Basta che si passino i test e siamo a posto? Mi sembra un po’ poco.
Credo che l’unico modo per insegnare bene sia un d’insegnamento fatto su misura come materie , metodi di studio e tempi, ma purtroppo questo non sarà mai fattibile perché c’è un tema di costi non banale.
Qua sotto il mappazzone in inglese
I’ll let you in on a secret. I have a doctorate in education, but the field’s basically just a 100 years old. We don’t really know what we’re doing. Our scholarly understanding of how learning happens is like astronomy 2000 years ago.
Most classroom practice is astrology.
Before the late 19th century, no human society had ever attempted to formally educate the entire populace. It was either aristocracy, meritocracy, or a blend. And always male.
We’re still smack-dab in the middle of the largest experiment on children ever done.
Most teachers perpetuate the “banking” model (Freire) used on them by their teachers, who likewise inherited it from theirs, etc.
Thus the elite “Lyceum” style of instruction continues even though it’s ineffectual with most kids.
What’s worse, the key strategies we’ve discovered, driven by cognitive science & child psychology, are quite regularly dismissed by pencil-pushing, test-driven administrators. Much like Trump ignores science, the majority of principals & superintendents I’ve known flout research.
Some definitions.
Banking model --> kids are like piggy banks: empty till you fill them with knowledge that you're the expert in.
Lyceum --> originally Aristotle's school, where the sons of land-owning citizens learned through lectures and research.
Things we (scholars) DO know:
-Homework doesn't really help, especially younger kids.
-Students don't learn a thing from testing. Most teachers don't either (it's supposed to help them tweak instruction, but that rarely happens).
-Spending too much time on weak subjects HURTS.
Do you want kids to learn? Here's something we've discovered.
Kids learn things that matter to them, either because the knowledge and skills are "cool," or because ...
... they give the kids tools to liberate themselves and their communities.
Maintaining the status quo? Nope.
Kids are acutely aware of injustice and by nature rebellious against the systems of authority that keep autonomy away from them.
If you're perpetuating those systems, teachers, you've already freaking lost.
They won't be learning much from you.
Except what not to become.
Sure, you can wear them down.
That's what happened to most of you, isn't it?
You saw the hideous flaw in the world and wanted to heal it. But year after numbing year, they made you learn their dogma by rote.
And now many of you are breaking the souls of children, too.
For what?
It's all smoke and mirrors. All the carefully crafted objectives, units and exams.
WE.
DON'T.
KNOW.
HOW.
PEOPLE.
LEARN.
We barely understand the physical mechanisms behind MEMORY.
But we DO know kids aren't empty piggy banks.
They are BRIMMING with thought.
The last and most disgusting reality? The thing I hear in classroom after freaking classroom?
Education is all about capitalism.
"You need to learn these skills to get a good job."
To be a good laborer. To help the wealthy generate more wealth, while you get scraps.
THAT is why modern education is a failure.
Its basic premise is monstrous.
"Why should I learn to read, Dr. Bowles?"
Because reading is magical. It makes life worth living. And being able to read, you can decode the strategies of your oppressors & stop them w/ their own words
#deschool #unschooling
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