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What an excellent statement about the purpose of school.

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"The whole notion of learning is a red herring. I don't talk about learning, throw it out. I'm sick of thinking about learning because learning in our society, the way we conceptualize it, is about semantic recall and procedural recall in a context. Learning is not the aim of school, learning is the means, the aim of school is human development. It's developing the dispositions, the capacities, to be able to engage in a complex systems-level of social and cultural institutionalization in the world, and to reify and create the kinds of structures and systems that we want and that we need given the changing circumstances.

The thing is, learning is essential...but it is essential because you need fodder to be able to develop around, not because it is the end point, but we call learning the 'outcome', 'learning outcomes', and then we're done! That's what school's about: it's about producing learning outcomes. But it's not. The learning outcomes are just the midway to what you're really su
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"When educators fail to appreciate the importance of students' emotions, they fail to appreciate a critical force in students' learning. One could argue, in fact, that they fail to appreciate the very reason that students learn at all." - Dr Mary Helen Immordino-Yang #EduSky

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It is so giving away the whole game that folks that accuse progressive educators of indoctrinating students are the ones who want "direct and explicit" instruction. It's almost like those of us that are supporting the capacity for critical thinking are actually doing the opposite of indoctrinating.

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Pedagogy divorced from content is a non-starter, as the means and ends are linked. In this case, naive but eager eduinfluencers provide a pedagogical blank check that explicit reactionary actors fill in: Explicit Bible instruction in social studies class with none of that woke stuff.

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