Teaching Intersections, Not Assessments: Celebrating the Surprise of Gift Giving and Gift Getting in the Cultural Commons

Dalke, Anne; Lesnick, Alice

doi:10.1080/15505170.2011.571176

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“…In the classroom, plans and goals are necessary but not sufficient. Equally necessary are openings to the unexpected and unknown (Dalke and Lesnick 2011).…”

Section: A Second Case Study: Changing What and Whom Formal Educationmentioning

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Education Is Life Itself: Biological Evolution as a Model for Human Learning

Grobstein

Lesnick

2011

Evo Edu Outreach

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Schooling often rests uneasily on presumed dichotomies between coverage and inquiry, skill development, and creativity. By drawing on the often underrecognized parallels between biological evolution and human learning, this essay argues that formal education needs and ought not to forego the unconscious exploratory processes of informal learning. Rather than posit as natural the cultural story that formal schooling must prepare students to integrate with given cultures and foreknowable futures, the evolutionary perspective shows that education is better thought of as preparing students to create cultures and to change, and foster change, in relation to unknown futures. The properties that distinguish formal from informal learning-conscious reflection and a degree of collective consensus about what constitutes knowledge at any given time-are, we argue, useful not as ends in themselves, but as tools for maximizing, sharing, and extending unconscious, evolutionary learning. Working with them as such offers a way out of some of education's persistent problems. Two autobiographical case studies provide examples of these evolutionary changes and indicate pathways of inquiry by which to pursue them.

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“…In the classroom, plans and goals are necessary but not sufficient. Equally necessary are openings to the unexpected and unknown (Dalke and Lesnick 2011).…”

Section: A Second Case Study: Changing What and Whom Formal Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%