Michele Pasin / Quotes

Read as if you had to teach it

Second, I would suggest that you shift your paradigm of your own involvement in this material from the role of learner to that of teacher. Take an inside-out approach, and read with the purpose in mind of sharing or discussing what you learn with someone else within 48 hours after you learn it.

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Children learn best through the senses

She believed children learn best through sensory experiences. She thought that the teacher has a responsibility to provide wonderful sights, textures, sounds…

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) #learning #sensation #education #design

Children learn by doing

Dewey played a central role in the development of—and is most associated with—the progressive education movement in the United States. In Europe, Maria…

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) #learning #education #experience #constructivism

Construction is superior to instruction

While others of his time argued that learning is either intrinsic (coming from the child) or extrinsic (imposed by the environment or taught by adults)…

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) #constructivism #learning #education #knowledge

Dewey's criteria for an educational experience

Dewey thought that rather than saying, “The children will enjoy this,” teachers need to ask the following questions when they plan activities for children…

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) #education #teaching #learning #child-development

Dewey: philosophy as the general theory of education

Dewey sees education as the dynamic and continuous development of democratic life, what he called ‘reconstruction’, and rightly believed that society cannot…

The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon) #education #learning #democracy #philosophy

Education is living, not preparation for it

“I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living” (8). Dewey believed that education is part of life. He…

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) #education #life #learning #experience