
The Future of Education: A conversation with Yusuf Ahmad
Philosophy of Education
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Are You Engaged in Epistemology?
i'm deeply steeped in constructionism, which believes that people learn best when they are constructing and building models of the world. If we think about school and education as the system for social reproduction as well, it doesn't get us away from those hard questions. So my pretty strong view is that there is a curriculum to stay, and it might change one way or another. But the buckets of education aren't going to be filled with knowledge and content for passiveners. That doesn't go away When you don't recognize that, hey, children aren't just born knowing how to do certain things. And so on.
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