Publish at October 25 2023 Updated October 25 2023
Three paths to understanding the world and finding other ways to approach our teaching practices based on the living world.
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The pedagogy of satisfaction and the preservation of flows
The flow (from source to receiver) that meets the perceived need generates student satisfaction. Teachers, students, pedagogies, technologies, and media can foster or disrupt this flow and generate satisfaction or dissatisfaction.
Teaching subjects such as social sciences and even certain scientific theories can lead to a direct confrontation with convictions, beliefs or references that are not shared by all. How to teach in this context?
Why constructivism and non-directive methods don't work very well
Explicit and systematic" are often confused with "by a master" and "from simple to complex". What must be explicit are the references that support the information and what must be systematic is the intellectual approach that is not satisfied with any grey area. If there is direction to be had, it is in the rigor to be maintained.
Conversation to acquire a new language
Learning a language requires reading and listening to lexemes, but it may also require pronouncing them. Thus, teachers are invited to create moments of discussion in a foreign language. A formative approach that gives meaning to learning.
The spirit of classicism, "the moral apprenticeship of freedom and nobility (or beauty)", seems to be just as at home on the Internet as it is with socio-constructivism. Plato and Socrates would be right at home here, if only school were indeed "classical".
