Notes from Keynote 1 Yorum Harpez

Ulearn14  8/10/14

Keynote 1 -  Professor Yoram Harpez

• http://bit.do/YoramHarpez - Collaborative Google Doc (unable to access)
• pedagogical sentiment
• Three arguments - theories are ideologies, 3 meta-ideologies, you must choose one of them
• The structure of ideology - utopia - an imagined picture of an ideal society - diagnosis, a description and analysis of actual society,  strategy - the means to change the actual society into the ideal society, collective - a social group that will carry out the change.
• political ideology, pedagogical ideaology, ideology of teaching thinking - all have the same structure.
• There are three meta-ideologies in education: Education serves three masters - socialisation - adapting the child to society, imparting useful behaviours, acculturation - shaping a child’s character in light of the values of the preferred culture, individuation - fostering the autonomy and authenticity of the child. (Allowing a child to fulfill him/herself - finding their inner truth)
• These dictate our educational practice - they are not abstract ideas
• t+i+c+s=p the formula of teaching  - teacher +instruction + content + student  = purpose

• The purpose = the desired graduate
• The desired graduate = knowledge, skills, traits, worldview
• factories and school - difficult to differentiate (painting English artist - industrial England)
• Socialisation - teacher is classroom manager imparting facts and skills, the instruction is autocratic, exemplifying and exercising, content is practical and useful, student is all students are the same, learning buy imitations, purpose - the educated person adapted to her/his society - image of futuristic classroom - philosophers who learn because they are curious
• Acculturation - teacher a live model of the demanded values and truths, instruction, authorotative, modelling, content, inner value, student, different (should be same) learning by internalisation, purpose the educated person is one whose character reflects cultural values and truths
• Individuation (painting 17C - teaching must be a personal process - individualised education - students went to teacher to be taught individually - the other students were all over the place, not necessarily learning)  Whole class teaching is a means of supervision - all can be controlled at the same time - the is supervision, not teaching - inefficient way of teaching.  Teacher - a facilitator, instruction -  a guidance sensitive to individual needs, content -  supports individual development, student - each student is unique, self-regulated learning, purpose  - the educated person is the one who fulfills his/herself.  We should not intervene in the delicate process of learning. In Israel - known as democratic schools - like the open classrooms of the 60’s.  Hours are flexible.
• You must choose one of them.  Natural tendency would be to do them all together - a tempting conclusion.
• The Tragic Choice  -  the sad truth - it doesn’t work - therefore we must stick to one.
• Pedagogical impact is created when one ideology is adopted within a whole school.  Otherwise students don’t take is seriously - they become indifferent.
• Do we have criteria to help us choose?  No - there is no empirical or victorious argument that can convince us that one is better than the other.  We base our choosing on our pedagogical sentiment.  one of the ideologies appeals to us and fits.
• The Moment of Truth - what am I attracted to?  Which is in NZ schools, which dominates NZ school.

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