Download or read book Free Progress Education written by Marco Masi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools, colleges, and universities are homogenizing systems that are almost exclusively focused on imposing a pre-ordered curricula through exams and grades or tight research lines. In the process, they are killing passion, creativity, and individuals' potential and skills. Ultimately, schools and academia make up a system of oppression that serves a collective machinery but suffocates individual growth. In contrast, a free-progress-education (FPE) paradigm asserts that the best way of learning, acquiring knowledge, and doing research comes through a process of free self-directed learning, and a progress of self-unfoldment and self-discovery, that must be guided from within. In schools, colleges, universities and beyond. A FPE learning centre would be expected to foster curiosity, intuition, self-directed-education in diversity, and, especially, wholesome respect for the practice of complete and responsible freedom of individual expression. FPE goes beyond the standard paradigm of unschooling or the pedagogical approach of democratic schools since it includes self-directed-education that can also work in high schools, colleges, universities, and research centres. It is a blueprint that envisages the liberation-not only of children in schools, but also of students in high schools and universities-as a release of academic research from the bonds of inflexible institutions and limiting hierarchies. After a brief introductory presentation, a personal preamble of the author describes his experiences with institutionalized learning from childhood to the doctoral dissertation and in a high school as a teacher. Then, the roots of the stagnant state of education will be investigated which is still based on an industrial and mechanistic mindset, and is perceived with increasing dissatisfaction. While analysing the detrimental effects that a managerial and industrial mentality has had on the education and intellectual growth of several generations, we will take as an example the deficiencies of the so-called big science, i.e. of the modern, large-scale scientific initiatives. Surveying past and present learning approaches such as the interesting renaissance of homeschooling and welcoming new trends such as unschooling or democratic education, the second part of this book looks beyond these paradigms searching for a wider spirit of education. It is emphasized that no reform is possible inside the current school and university paradigm, because it is in its essence an authoritarian system that won't allow itself to be dismantled from within. The last part of this book focuses upon a brief set of alternative proposals, which aim at overcoming the centuries-old shortcomings of the present educational system, by favouring intrinsic over extrinsic motivation. Preliminary practical ideas are put forward on what a free-progress learning community might look like, and what the first steps for its realization might be. It is explained there why it is only through a change from the ground up that the certificate-oriented educational system can transform itself into a project-oriented, self-organized, competence-portfolio based one, with no exams, grades, degrees, or other administrative trammels. At the same time, it must be made clear that the ultimate aim of doing away with the present system of assessment criteria would be to install a much deeper and articulated paradigm shift than some superficial reform and even beyond the actually undeveloped democratic education concept which still falls short beyond high-school level. What is visualized is an evolutionary pedagogical perspective, compared to the conventional one, and presented as the necessary condition for a 'Copernican approach' to education, and as a possible solution to the present state of affairs. Only after that perspective has been realized can new competences, curiosity, intuition, and real forms of creative learning return to flourish in schools and academia.

Download or read book Progress Toward a Free Appropriate Public Education written by United States. Bureau of Education for the Handicapped. State Program Implementation Studies Branch and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Progress Toward a Free Appropriate Public Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Progress Toward a Free Appropriate Public Education a Report to Congress on the Implementation of Public Law 94 142 The Education for All Handicapped Children Act written by United States. Bureau of Education for the Handicapped. State Program Implementation Studies Branch and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Progress of Education in India written by India. Ministry of Education and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Progress of Education in India written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Free at Last written by Daniel Greenberg and published by The Sudbury Valley School. This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A System of National Education written by Aurobindo Ghose and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Century of Education written by Edwin Martin Stone and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A History of Public Education in Rhode Island from 1636 to 1876 written by Thomas B. Stockwell and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biennial Report of the State Superintendent of Free Schools of the State of West Virginia for the Years and written by West Virginia. Department of Free Schools and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1890/1892 includes: History of education in West Virginia, by B.S. Morgan and J.F. Cork.

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Download or read book The Rebirth of Education written by Lant Pritchett and published by CGD Books. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without even the most basic skills. In India’s rural Andhra Pradesh, for instance, only about one in twenty children in fifth grade can perform basic arithmetic. The problem is that schooling is not the same as learning. In The Rebirth of Education, Lant Pritchett uses two metaphors from nature to explain why. The first draws on Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom’s book about the difference between centralized and decentralized organizations, The Starfish and the Spider. Schools systems tend be centralized and suffer from the limitations inherent in top-down designs. The second metaphor is the concept of isomorphic mimicry. Pritchett argues that many developing countries superficially imitate systems that were successful in other nations— much as a nonpoisonous snake mimics the look of a poisonous one. Pritchett argues that the solution is to allow functional systems to evolve locally out of an environment pressured for success. Such an ecosystem needs to be open to variety and experimentation, locally operated, and flexibly financed. The only main cost is ceding control; the reward would be the rebirth of education suited for today’s world.

Download or read book Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: