Re: Best practices
Bill Barowy (wbarowy who-is-at lesley.edu)
Tue, 30 Dec 1997 11:02:05 -0500
At 5:38 PM -0500 12/29/97, Gordon Wells wrote:
>As Mike pointed out, schools have tended to operate in rather similar
>ways over the centuries, in part because they have typically been
>conceived as transmissionary institutions and in part, as Jay suggests,
>because young people's ideas and perspectives have not been considered
>worthy of consideration. ... For both these reasons, there is ample
>justification for
>encouraging teachers to become action researchers...
Gordon,
Are you saying that an important outcome of action research is that it
provides legitimate motivation for teachers to begin considering the ideas
of kids?
Bill Barowy,
Technology in Education
Lesley College, 29 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-2790
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