Experiential education

Author and educator, Amanda Alexander discusses how engaging a developmentally disabled community through art based learning helped create a better community. It all started when the author was selected by the University Service-Learning Fellowship to participate in monthly seminars during the 2012-2013 academic year. The seminars consisted of listening to guest speakers, writing reflections, reading information about service-learning, discussing service-learning possibilities, teaching methods,…

There are five philosophies of education that focus on teachers and students; essentialism, perennialism, progressivism, social reconstructionism, and existentialism. Essentialism is what is used in today’s classrooms and was helped by William Bagley in the 1930s. Perennialism is close to essentialism with the same idea of sharpening student’s minds and focusing on Great Books. Progessivism, social reconstructionism, and existentialism focus more on the wants and need of the students. Many…

Have the teachers relied too heavily on the banking-system and oppressed the creative and critical thinking aspect of schooling, or are students at fault for their economic status and not putting in the necessary effort. Who is at fault in the education system? At first glance the blame starts to lean towards the student. “Experts agree that a large part of the dropout problem can be traced to social, economic and cultural factors that…

To understand place-based education, first one must define what place-based education is. Place based education is " learning that is rooted in what is local, the unique history, environment, culture, economy, literature, and art of a particular place”( Sobel ,2004.23 ). Students should learn about what is going on within their environment before they learn about other environments. When students learn about their own environment first they can make comparisons to other environments based off…

writing scares me. Note the course topic: teaching writing K-12. Mari and the other students telling me about their fears and hatred of writing are not freshman in their first college-level composition class. Most of them are junior and senior education majors, close to (if not already there) graduating and becoming fully certified school teachers. In other words, the very students who claim incompetence as writers themselves are the ones who will be teaching…

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learning from our mistakes inspires us to make our own understanding and truths about the world around us and in our personal lives. Experience is the key that opens the door to wisdom. In “Solitude and Leadership,” Deresiewicz questions our system of education that trains students to not be able to think for themselves. Similarly, Hesse uses Siddhartha’s journey to enlightenment to illuminate the idea that certain revelations cannot be taught; they must be personally experienced. Putting…

Early adolescent period is a crucial part of human development. It is at this stage that students go through dramatic changes in their biological, psycho social and lastly their cognitive development. All these changes occur simultaneously and in a lot of times they are occurring interpedently. As a result these changes have massive effect on the academic achievement and the students learning experience as a whole (Wugfield, Lutz & Wagne, 2005). One of the major biological changes…

Stereotypes from past experiences as well as the media have almost formed how most individuals view a physical education teacher. Most people have an idea of what a “good” phys-ed teacher and also what a “bad” phys-ed teacher should be like. Personally, a good physical education teacher should be athletic, a good leader or role model, a strong communicator, confident in their abilities, motivational, organized, creative, and enthusiastic. There are plenty other characteristics that a phys-ed…

point this out to the lack of training on pedagogy in academic teaching in their Physical Therapy education program and majority of respondents learned to teach through trial and error. With this evidence, we can assume that pedagogy in academic teaching in Physical Therapy is an important skill, especially, for those who aspires a role as a Physical Therapy educator. However, most Physical Therapy education systems does not include training in such…