A Design for Alana: Creating the Next Generation of American Schools. Fastback 468.

Autor/in	Duke, Daniel L.
Institution	Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, Bloomington, IN.
Titel	A Design for Alana: Creating the Next Generation of American Schools. Fastback 468.
Quelle	(2000), (53 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	0-87367-668-8
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Change Strategies; Educational Change; Educational Trends; Elementary Secondary Education; Excellence in Education; Long Range Planning; School Restructuring; Strategic Planning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lösungsstrategie; Bildungsreform; Bildungsentwicklung; Lernerfolg; Langfristige Planung; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung
Abstract	This booklet recounts an educator's musings on what education could be for his 2-year-old granddaughter. It describes the shift in pedagogical paradigms away from the diagnostic-prescriptive approach, with its focus on identification of problems and deficiencies, toward education design, with its concern for human potential and human differences. The text centers on four ideas: (1) children are learning what they are expected to learn; (2) diversity and the schools' approaches to diversity; (3) choice and the consequences that arise from choices; and (4) the importance of formulating a new design for learning. It examines some of the traditional assumptions of education, such as the idea that a school's central activity is teaching; the purpose of teaching is the acquisition of knowledge; students should be graded on how well they acquire knowledge; all students must acquire the same basic knowledge in the same amount of time, in the same sequence and combination, and in the same place; and the needs of all students can be accommodated under one roof. The booklet closes with a plea that educators design learning networks that incorporate certain premises, such as the notion that learning requires feedback on both the application and the acquisition of knowledge. (RJM)
Anmerkungen	Phi Delta Kappa International, P.O. Box 789, Bloomington, IN 47402-0789. Tel: 800-766-1156 (Toll-free); Web site: http://www.pdkintl.org.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01