Dear Classmates,
I would like to share with you this research that I found exceptional, which is supposed to study and understand the intentionality for both the educator and the child, and therefore the intentionality of a program. This is how it is stated:
"Historical notions of the role of the educator, with direct links from intentional teaching through developmentally appropriate practice to more postmodern conceptualizations, have created tensions in curriculum tied to pre - determined outcomes. Curriculum developed by educators has the potential to inhibit powerful contributions children can make towards their own education.
Contemporary theorising of the educator now acknowledges the child’s right for active participation. What needs to be understood is that while an intentional teacher looks for opportunities to teach, an intentional learner looks for opportunities to learn throughout the day. The goal of an intentional teacher is to seek strategies that develop intentional learning skills within children. This view on the role of the educator changes from the provider of knowledge to one that promotes the innate drives for independent learning.
I would like to share with you this research that I found exceptional, which is supposed to study and understand the intentionality for both the educator and the child, and therefore the intentionality of a program. This is how it is stated:
"Historical notions of the role of the educator, with direct links from intentional teaching through developmentally appropriate practice to more postmodern conceptualizations, have created tensions in curriculum tied to pre - determined outcomes. Curriculum developed by educators has the potential to inhibit powerful contributions children can make towards their own education.
Contemporary theorising of the educator now acknowledges the child’s right for active participation. What needs to be understood is that while an intentional teacher looks for opportunities to teach, an intentional learner looks for opportunities to learn throughout the day. The goal of an intentional teacher is to seek strategies that develop intentional learning skills within children. This view on the role of the educator changes from the provider of knowledge to one that promotes the innate drives for independent learning.
An intentional curriculum involves co-participation where both the teacher and child are valued as equal partners within the teacher–learning nexus. Identifying the child as an intentional learner provides agency for children in setting their own goals with educators. Equitable outcomes for learning pathways can only be truly achieved when intentionality represents this relationship. This work argues that recognition of the child as an intentional learner may go some way to resolving misunderstandings about intentionality".
I found it a very interesting approach that will help change old school teachers in progressivist teachers with values of progressivism
which comprise questioning, challenging, openness and seeking alternate
possibilities (Kohn. 2008).
References
Early Childhood Australia. http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/our-publications/australasian-journal-early-childhood/index-abstracts/ajec-vol-38-4-2013/1850-2/
Kohn, A. (2008). Progressive education: Why it's
hard to beat, but also hard to find. Retrieved from http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/progressive.htm
Hi Marlene, I enjoyed reading your post and it would be amazing to see that would work to change the approach of teacher, but then again the world is changing everyday what could go wrong with a new approach?
ReplyDeleteDear Penney,
DeleteThank you for your comment. I really think that anything going in the line of waking up the intention and passion of teachers will always be a positive thing, even when changes in this world are still there.
All the best.