Factory Outlet by George Monbiot posted in the Guardian | Expeditionary Learning
February 23, 2017 Leave a comment
Mass conformism through propaganda. George Monbiot’s words continue to pierce me with his insights.
http://www.monbiot.com/2017/02/16/factory-outlet/
Posted in the Guardian 16th of February, 2017
He talks of the educational conformism that drains teacher’s and students of creativity, and speaks of several systems that move away from the old model, that was designed to produce workers in the 19th century industrialist cultures we lived in.
One educational model that stood out to me, the Reggio Emilia approach, is only because I happened to visit there when I hitchhiked from Berlin to southern Germany, destination Rome.
It was just today that I took a picture of this Expeditionary Learning description on the wall of an 8th grade bi-lingual school science class here in Santa fe.
Expeditionary – hands and all senses on – Learning
Reminding me of a blog I wrote, after discovering the concept on a hitchhiking journey in which two teachers coming from a conference picked me up and informed me about it.
Why kids need to move, touch and experience to learn Expeditionary Learning
Carol the blogger among Italians in Reggio Emilia on Italian Hitchabout
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Carol the blogger’s contact card while residing here in the southwest for the time being.
Carol Keiter the blogger back in Tucson, Arizona summer ’16
