Tag: john dewey
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Not for Employment but for Life
John Dewey once wrote that education and experience cannot be automatically equated to one another, and that is absolutely true to some extent. Education in itself is useful change that occurs in experience, the encounter with a different other (see Piaget and his theory of schemas). Non-useful change can be turned into useful if a…
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Educator, Education, Educated
The bane of an educator’s existence is to not be able to educate. But what does “to educate” mean? What does “to educate” mean in Malta? What does “to educate” mean in a Church School in Malta? Yes, I know that each school has its own ethos outlining this quite plainly. But it does pay…
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The Teacher as Anthropologist: Going Native
Why do we insist on teaching children on our own worlds instead of theirs?
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Learning Support as a Philosophy. What is our Role?
Why an LSE? A foundation for the philosophy of Learning Support
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