Breaking with Everyday Experience for Guided Adventures in Learning. Occasional Paper No. 140 [electronic resource] / Robert E. Floden and Margret Buchmann.

Educators are under almost constant pressure to make schooling relevant to the lives of their students. Students, however, who are never exposed to the realms of possibility beyond their own immediate experience hardly have an equal opportunity to enjoy the benefits of education, since everyday expe...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author: Floden, Robert E.
Corporate Author: Michigan State University. Institute for Research on Teaching
Other Authors: Buchmann, Margret
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1992.
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520 |a Educators are under almost constant pressure to make schooling relevant to the lives of their students. Students, however, who are never exposed to the realms of possibility beyond their own immediate experience hardly have an equal opportunity to enjoy the benefits of education, since everyday experience tends to reinforce social inequalities. Students who are encouraged to assimilate new information into preexisting conceptions are unlikely to appreciate the insights offered by the academic disciplines. Teachers should be wary of introducing new ideas by pointing out their relation to everyday concepts and ways of thinking, because separation from everyday experiences favors reflection. Instead, school instruction should lure students to new capacities and understandings through unfamiliar subject matter. These adventures in learning can occur with guidance from a teacher, but without initial clarity about their purpose and promise. Possible objections to having schools provide breaks from everyday experience may arise from a desire for meaningfulness in instruction, may be based on research in cognition, or may be drawn from Dewey's philosophy of education. However, all these potential sources of objection can be seen as ultimately supporting the need for breaks from everyday experience: breaks that are necessary for children if they are to reap the benefits of schooling. (Author/AC) 
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