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The Child's World
Triggers for learning
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The title of this book, The Child’s World: Triggers for Learning, was chosen
in response to two major beliefs. The first is that young people’s
voices seem to be the last to be heard, if they are heard at all, in educational
debates. Now, as in the past, the decisions that directly affect the
content of their formal learning appear to be made by adults in senior
decision-making roles who regard themselves as qualified to decide
what is best for the nation and therefore for the children in our
schools. As long-term educators, such a position is hard for us to
accept. The second belief is the other side of this somewhat sceptical
view of educational curriculum designers — our strong faith in the
power of young people to make a difference to our lives in new,
creative and magical ways, provided we who have the power take the
time to hear their voices, observe their behaviours and provide opportunities
for their expression in valued and meaningful ways.
Over the years, the privilege of working with young people and
their teachers in many different settings has reinforced those beliefs.
The excellent teachers, or those who would qualify as ‘expert’ by
Dewey’s (1916) standards, use the experiences of the children themselves
as starting-points to learning. While remaining mindful of the
curriculum, these adults recognise that the quality of the communication
process is crucial when crossing the bridge from ignorance to
competence. These expert teachers share another belief — that the
individuals with whom they are engaged are at least as important, if
not more so, as the discipline that is to be taught. This is not to suggest
that the content of learning is not important: it is, and should be,
if we as the experienced adult members of society, charged with the
role of global custodians, accept our awesome responsibility to the
future of the planet and its people.
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Australian Council for Educational Research; January 2000
418 pages; ISBN 9780864313010
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418 pages; ISBN 9780864313010
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9780585497648
9780864313010

