Decelerating literacy
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The document emphasizes the importance of intrinsic motivation and nurturing relationships in education, arguing against a mechanistic view of learning. It highlights that children's experiences, social interactions, and the meaning they attach to learning significantly impact their development. The text calls for a focus on play-based education and a recognition of diverse learning styles to foster creativity and emotional well-being.
Decelerating literacy
- 4. WHAT IS LEARNING WITHOUT INTRINSIC INTENTION?
- 7. Education BASED ON A MECHANICAL VIEW OF THE HUMAN BEING CANNOT SUCCEED.!
- 9. We are underscoring the importance of nurturing experiences. ! As social animals, we need love to thrive.! Consistent and supportive relationships.! Experiences can profoundly impact.! In an instructional classroom it is too hard to create those bonds.!
- 10. Interaction with things: Encounter with the world! Translate phonemes into letters! Auditory and speech skills! Complex, socially created, transmitted skills! They need to speak and listen before letters.!
- 11. Motor skills:! Balance, posture and proprioception provide the basis for coordination, ocular- motor functioning and visual- perception.! Physical skills through free play! Optometry: laterality!
- 12. Different levels of understanding reading. ! Ready to school vs ! ready to learn! Cognitive process are ! fully functioning at birth.! All learning depends on neural networks (many ! Regions of the brain)! MULTI-SENSORY LEARNING! The question is not whether a child is ready to learn but what a child is ready to learn.
- 14. Intrinsically rewards activities: sense of discovery, exploration and problem-solution.! Csikszentmihalyi: FLOW as times of intense concentration and deep enjoyment. State of consciousness. ! Experience of learning becomes its own reward (no boredom or anxiety)!
- 15. Children are MEANING-MAKERS.! When something is not necessary, lacks meaning… it is therefore not learned. ! Letters put together is nothing to them.! Starting their education doing things with no meaning will lead them to the mechanical activity of doing just because.
- 16. CONCEPT OF INTELLIGENCE changed to a richer blend of capacities (genetically and environmentally predicted)! Unique neurology to ! Interpret information.! Prioritize some, undermines the sense of self-worth (tagging)
- 17. Debate: High Scope Educational Research Foundations: explained by David Elkind.! Increase of incidents of aggressiveness is linked to the amount of quiet activities, requirements of being still and stresses that children are under. ! ★Walter Gilliam: correlation between play and expulsions.! Hartford Courant (In Connectitcut 2002: 901 kindergartens expelled.! Stephen Hinshaw: linked aggressive behavior with academic pressure! Academic Environment on Preschool (Rercola, Hyson and HIrsh) disadvantages in creative expression and emotional well-being. !
- 18. Lilian Katz: tendency to distance themselves from the goals of schools, drop out. German study 70´s comparing centers: back to kinderlanden. Finland: kinder until 7 on a play-based program Sebastian Suggate from NZ : no advantages in early reading. ★PCCS (High Scope Preschool Curriculum Comparison Study) late 60´s longitudinal study with low income families. WE ARE NOT REDUCING THE LEARNING GAP WE ARE INTENSIFYNG THE PROBLEMS.
- 19. 47 34 27 0 6 9 0 31 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Special Education Arrested Suspended work Married DI group Child initiated activities
- 20. PETER GRAY in his FREEDOM TO LEARN! “As long as kids grow up in a literate society, surrounded by people who read, they will learn to read”! 7principles understanding the process of learning to read without schooling:! 1. For non-schooled children THERE IS NO CRITICAL period or best age.! 2. MOTIVATED children can go from apparent non-reading to fluent reading.! 3. Attempts to PUSH reading can BACKFIRE.! 4. Children learn to read when reading becomes, to them, a MEANS to some valued end or ends. !
- 21. 5. Reading, like many other skills, is LEARNED SOCIALLY through shared participation. ! 6. Some children become interested in WRITING BEFORE READING, and they learn to read as they learn to write.! 7. There is NO PREDICTABLE COURSE through which children learn to read. ! “We are just observers and sometimes tools that our children use for their own chosen ends”.
- 22. Creativity scores have going downward since 90´s! Susan Engel started a study about curiosity. ! Where are we going to find those creative, inquires, critic citizens?!
- 23. Let the stages happen, let the processes flow, have faith on them. Children know what they are doing, they ARE always learning… always. And they come to this world with the best learning tool: ENTHUSIASM