EDUC 1F95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, Cooperative Learning
14 Mar 2014
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It"s called constructivism, so what is being constructed: new knowledge. No knowledge is separate from the person, the context, or the experience: no such thing as knowledge out-there . Context is important: teaching must take context into account, ex) social and cultural context, or individual context, or context of curriculum content. I would teach this course differently if: i was teaching in japan, you were over 40 years-old, it was 100 years-ago, you were all millionaires. Instead of: teachers as all knowing and powerful. Children have a real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them something too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves. What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone. : mind in society.
