Here is another post motivated by my clean out of old files. In 2013, I prepared a conference presentation (which was never delivered due to a scheduling problem). In that presentation, I claimed the dominant model of learning that seemed to be accepted by schools was grounded on six assumptions:
- Individual are cognitive unit
- Knowledge is additive toward truth
- To know about is sufficient
- Agreement is desired
- Defer to authority
- Educations in the sum of its parts
I believe the assumptions remain valid. In the presentation, I intended to argue schools should adopt a assumptions about learning that are more accurate. Specifically:
- Social construction of knowledge
- Idea improvement
- Deep understanding is knowledge of
- Discourse is desired
- Construct based upon authoritative
- Knowledge is emergent