My attempts at following the guidelines for my Philosophy of Education

[em_angharad]

To what extent does your philosophy of education reflect a thoughtful and responsive educator?
To the extent to which I am one.

How does learning take place?
Repeated simultaneous activation of different areas of the brain strengthens the association between these areas.

What is the relationship among teaching, schooling, and social justice?

Comments

[mr_niggle]

Heh. That last one's a doozy (sp). It sort of cracks me up and makes me feel all funny at the same time.

Those are hard hard questions. They make me think: "Where do I start?"

[thorsbaby]

Ya know, one of the things I love about you is your darker sense of humor. :)

Not to be too serious but the second question made me remember an article I just read where neurophysiologists found that simple and unchallenging repetition has a hypnotic, even dulling effect on the learning process. You know, the way they tried to teach me foreign languages and my times tables.... Let me know if your interested and I'll dig up the article. I think it's funny they "found" this when I could have told them that in the first grade.

[em_angharad]

That'd be interesting. You mean, hearing repetition, or doing things? Because there are some things that I'm not sure how to learn except by repetition, like addition and times tables. Mind you, you'd want to vary what kind of practice, and try to provide different methods and applications and things, but mostly I know how to add the numbers up to ten together because I've done it over and over again. I'd be interested to see the article, certainly.

Howdy.

[new_man]

I read your LJ. You've been warned.

Yevsha