In a message dated 7/7/2002 11:28:15 PM Central Daylight Time,
phillip.capper@webresearch.co.nz writes:
> I have long believed that the
> fundamental problem concerns the fact that schools are organisational
> contexts predicated on what I now understand as 'scientific epistemic
> cultures' - that is the holding of knowledge by the teacher
> ('expert/'shaman') and the school as a place for the transmission of that
> shamanistic knowledge to the novice or accolyte.
>
>
Phillip,
In my work with students who don't fit the High School mold I have done my
best when I am able to get the student to see that they are the one in
control of what knowledge they need in order for them to be successful. When
they come to this realization they come to me and tell me what they need for
me to do for them.
eric
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