Keynote Speaker: Prof Yoram Harpez
Collaborative Google doc:
http://bit.do/YoramHarpez
"The big picture, what should educators be doing with students in this modern era"
3 arguments:
1. Educational "theories" are ideologies
The Structure of ideology
Utopia: An imagined picture of an ideal society
Diagnosis: A description and analysis of the actual society
E.g. Maori culture language dying out
Strategy:The means to change the actual society into the ideal society
E.g. Education
Collective: A social group that will carry out the change
E.g. Maori & tribes working together to carry out change
Political & Educational Ideologies have the same structure:
Pedagogical Ideology:
Utopia:Image of the ideal graduate "the educated man"
Diagnosis:Description. Of the actual students
Strategy:The pattern of teaching, the method of assessing,etc
Collective:The educational community
Ideology of teaching thinking
Utopia: image of good thinker
Diagnosis: description of actual thinker
Strategy:The pattern of teaching, the method of assessing,etc
Collective:The educational community
2. There are 3 meta-ideologues in education
Socialisation
Adapting the child to society, imparting useful behaviours
Acculturation
Shaping the child's character in light of the values of the preferred culture
Individualisation
Fostering the autonomy and the authenticity of the child
The Formula of a teaching
Teacher + instruction + content + student = purpose
The purpose= the desired graduate
The desired graduate = knowledge! skills! traits, worldview
P1 Socialisation
Teacher: Classroom manager; imparts facts & skills.
Instruction: autocratic; exemplifying & exercising
Content: practical & useful
Student: All students are the same, learning by imitation
Purpose: students in society
P2 Acculturation
Teacher: A live. Orel of the demanded values and truth
Instruction: authoritative; modelling
Content: inner value
Student: Different ( should be the same)learning by internalisation
Purpose: The educated person is one whose character reflects cultural values and truth
P3 Individualisation
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 one who fulfills himself/herself
3.You must choose one of them
There is a contradiction between the educational means of the meta-ideologies so you must stick to just one
S= practical pedagogical : aims to produce a worker
A =intellectual, ethical and aesthetic sentiment
I= Humane sentiments: views education as brainwashing and therefore must create new educational environments in which each child is nurtured for themselves
