tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11652148.post2041145576470019076..comments2024-02-23T10:53:19.705+00:00Comments on Dare to Know: Sensible Stuff....Carlottahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12686469871331093679noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11652148.post-12145557056692643582008-05-18T10:30:00.000+01:002008-05-18T10:30:00.000+01:00He's just copying what home educators have been sa...He's just copying what home educators have been saying for a good while now (he even uses the word facilitator) and he doesn't really get it. Why does he still thinks a curriculum is needed such as:<BR/><BR/>"From age seven onwards, our core subjects might be: philosophy, storytelling, music, technology, nature and games."<BR/><BR/>Isn't this falling in the ageist trap of trying to guess what children as a group might like to learn?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11652148.post-73028358069551990752008-05-17T22:44:00.000+01:002008-05-17T22:44:00.000+01:00Couldn't agree more.Couldn't agree more.Carlottahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12686469871331093679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11652148.post-17028274807161924942008-05-17T22:35:00.000+01:002008-05-17T22:35:00.000+01:00I like the bit about following the chain of curios...I like the bit about following the chain of curiosity. Unlike following a curriculum, you don't know where a chain of curiosity will lead you. Also unlike a curriculum what you learn will be real and connected with your other ideas and with your life generally, capable of affecting both deeply.<BR/><BR/>One quibble. Children don't need any encouragement to follow this chain, as the article suggests. It's adults that need encouraging not to prevent them from doing so, and instead to help when asked. To begin with, it's not necessary to ask what they want to learn, but, for example, to answer questions. The start of the chain is usually implicit in what an individual is doing with his or her freedom right now.<BR/><BR/>-- TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11652148.post-25384269717406885122008-05-17T18:17:00.000+01:002008-05-17T18:17:00.000+01:00Got my HE comment in :-)Got my HE comment in :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com