Hi,
I don't know if Timothy is still working on this, but there are critical texts about Schools and its role in society. One of the seminal and more strong critics is from Ivan Illich and his "Sociedad Desescolarizada" (I have only read him in Spanish) and a more conciliatory view of classroom as simulations of communities of practice can be found in Gavriel Salomon's Distributed Cognitions. The advantage of the Communities of Practice point of view is that classroom can be simulations but they happen everywhere outside the classroom, as cooking in the Timothy's example.
Cheers,
Offray
El 07/12/10 00:28, Kim Rose escribió:
Why does it have to be one or the other -- "instead"??????? I'd build a case to try to find a way of supporting both.
Kim Rose Viewpoints Research
On Dec 6, 2010, at 3:18 AM, Timothy Falconer wrote:
Hi all,
A favor: help me make this case (or refute it) as we prepare once more for Haiti ... "spend money on training & laptops instead bricks and mortar".
http://waveplace.com/news/blog/archive/001035.jsp
Thanks, Tim
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