Allison Boroda
Department of Human Development & Family Studies
Texas Tech University
home e-mail: sense who-is-at swbell.net
Tech e-mail: aboroda who-is-at ttacs.ttu.edu
phone: (806) 762-8145
Eugene Matusov wrote:
>
> Hi Diane, Allison, and everybody--
>
> I have recently realized that asking my students (future teachers) to
> remember their own school experience (and how they were sometimes hurt by
> teaching) so this memory can guide their teaching may not be always helpful.
> Many students learn how to survive in school rather how to learn with the
> teacher and other students. This learning about survival they carry to
> their teaching to repeat the cycle. They often separate their own student
> experience from discussions on teaching exactly because they are guided by
> survival in both cases.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Eugene
> PS Diane, I really like your quote from Valerie Walkerdine! I think that
> progressive teaching (or whatever it is called) is guided by the expected
> impact on others (not only, of course).
>
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