I have started an online course on the future of education with Coursera. It is part of my desire to look at learning using the web, I am also doing a brilliant course on Shakespeare with Futurelearn.
It has been the first week for the education course, and the video lectures have been brilliant, along with the discussions and questions. As an assignment at the end we had to reflect on what has affected our own learning, and how we see the future. I wrote about my inspirations, including Stephen Jay Gould's book Ever Since Darwin, and the last BBC Bronowski lecture by Nicholas Humphrey.
As a teacher at A.S.Neill's Summerhill School I have been researching the community created in 1914 called New Ideals in Education and how they affected the law, delivery, practice of education in our primary schools, they failed with the secondary schools, apart from private ones, and very innovative state school heads. I am doing projects with state schools using this history as a framework to promote the idea of a culture and history of struggle for rights in schools.
I am doing this course to frame my work using this research, and to see how others respond to the ideas of New Ideals as the creators of our idea of an excellent modern school. So far I have been very surprised by the acceptance of the progressive education ideas, methods and values expressed in the lectures!
As part of the course we are asked to blog a refective diary.
It has been the first week for the education course, and the video lectures have been brilliant, along with the discussions and questions. As an assignment at the end we had to reflect on what has affected our own learning, and how we see the future. I wrote about my inspirations, including Stephen Jay Gould's book Ever Since Darwin, and the last BBC Bronowski lecture by Nicholas Humphrey.
As a teacher at A.S.Neill's Summerhill School I have been researching the community created in 1914 called New Ideals in Education and how they affected the law, delivery, practice of education in our primary schools, they failed with the secondary schools, apart from private ones, and very innovative state school heads. I am doing projects with state schools using this history as a framework to promote the idea of a culture and history of struggle for rights in schools.
I am doing this course to frame my work using this research, and to see how others respond to the ideas of New Ideals as the creators of our idea of an excellent modern school. So far I have been very surprised by the acceptance of the progressive education ideas, methods and values expressed in the lectures!
As part of the course we are asked to blog a refective diary.
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