tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post3002141862226957370..comments2024-03-21T05:30:03.220-04:00Comments on Science teacher: "I want to expand a child's world!"doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12901661320505882735noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-5299301397131440632014-07-25T16:32:33.487-04:002014-07-25T16:32:33.487-04:00I think the dogma comes from all of the above -- a...I think the dogma comes from all of the above -- and isn't necessarily all "wrong" so much as off or incomplete. I'm referring to students who think that creationism is science or who believe that immigrants (sometimes their own classrooms) are out to ruin their way of life. Sometimes, the source is school: the obsession with grades, the belief that there are "good" and "bad" kids, etc. <br /><br />I have a hunch we agree more than disagree in this -- but that the language we choose is different. I see a garden as a way to expand a worldview. I see a Coleman-styled closed reading exercise as a way to limit a child's worldview.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10956056168256756705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-6592889395981492922014-07-25T16:21:21.735-04:002014-07-25T16:21:21.735-04:00Dear John,
No problem with anything you said--but...Dear John,<br /><br />No problem with anything you said--but I will ask this. Where does that dogma come from? Home? School? Our towns? Our country?<br /><br />I have no problem with expanding a child's view--my problem is the belief that showing pictures or videos of something completely outside of a child's experience has much (or any) validity.<br />doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901661320505882735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-1806909648004172302014-07-25T15:25:16.480-04:002014-07-25T15:25:16.480-04:00A little pushback here:
I use the term "exp...A little pushback here: <br /><br />I use the term "expand a child's worldview" often and here's what I mean:<br /><br />I want to see students think deeper about life. I want to see them ask hard questions that break against the dogma that they've experienced. I want to see them wrestle with questions. I want to see them delight over seeing a "bug" and really seeing it and then sketching what they see and then asking tons of questions. <br /><br />I don't see anything wrong with expanding a child's world. What I object to is limiting a child's world to a series of ones and zeroes and telling that child that the world is as flat as the screen they are holding in their hands. <br /><br />That's not expansion of a worldview. That's compression. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10956056168256756705noreply@blogger.com