From the new study Winning the Epistemological Struggle: Constructing a Cultural Model of Shared Authority in an Elementary Classroom, as reported in the Teachers College Record of Columbia University's Teachers College:
That's right, teachers share classroom authority with their students in order to learn from their students.Conclusions: Overall, the findings serve as an example of how shared authority contributes to alternative ways of viewing knowledge and whose knowledge counts, and what it means to be a learner. Most important, this study demonstrates that when shared authority is a consistent classroom practice, what emerges over time is a cultural model within which students can begin to restructure their developing epistemological frames as they revise their notions of knowledge and ways of knowing. (emphasis added)
-- by Teresa Crawford — 2008
Whose knowledge counts?!? What it means to be a learner?!? These folks are whacko!
Ask interim superintendent Hooie about this nonsense. I bet she thinks its great stuff. And we pay her over $200,000 per year. They are all bonkers!
2 comments:
Now, now...I'm an adherent of this progressive philosophy and have expanded it beyond the classroom and into our household. Here's how:
As "shared authority" partners on household matters my children now get to eat Cheetos for breakfast, lunch and dinner; stay up until midnight; allocate as much income as they want for entertainment, and talk back to me and their mother.
Certainly you can't argue that my son telling me to jump off a bridge when I ask him to clean his room is not a positive learning opportunity for all of us...
...a counterpunch to this educationist silliness:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08212008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/school_jewel_125388.htm
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