Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:1172] Autonomous Learning
From: Norma Benesdra (benesdran@sinectis.com.ar)
Date: Mon 19 Feb 2001 - 23:30:32 MET
From: "Norma Benesdra" <benesdran@sinectis.com.ar> Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:1172] Autonomous Learning Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:30:32 +1300
Anita wrote,
> The push towards autonomous learning - which is seductive, and which the
business providers would like to follow - will not work. Anyone who has
been in education for some time knows that.
I think we should strive for autonomous learning in all areas,
autonomous meaning responsible, daring and opportune. We should use more
questions and fewer answers, both on the part of the teacher and the
student. Maybe this small change will, following Socrates, enable
students and teachers to know themselves better, find their own learning
and teaching strategies and thus learn better. I don't mean going back
to Rousseau's Emile because we should make the most of our pedagogy and
all the technology available. I mean we should use everything we have on
the basis of operative/ethical principles of co-laboration and
co-operation each of us defending our territory but letting others show
their needs and suggest ways of sorting them out.
Greetings from South America
Norma Benesdra
Buenos Aires
Argentina
benesdran@sinectis.com.ar
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