Traditional knowledge

observations, the critical pedagogy paradigm was not present. This is because critical pedagogy firstly requires change of attitude from the traditional classroom whereby the teacher feeds the knowledge to the learners and they absorb the information. Teachers have this perception that using traditional methods of lecturing, asserting authority, transferring skills and knowledge to the learners is the correct approach to do the work. However, it is the wrong approach to apply as it is the role…

activity do students truly learn. He distinguished between traditional schools and progressive schools. Dewey criticised that traditional schools were ineffective means of education where students were instructed to absorb information like sponges. Traditional schools were far too structured for his liking. For Dewey, all learning happened through experience and he strongly believed that the experience was the key to the transmission of knowledge. Experience is unique to each learner; every…

important to realize that it is not as easy as looking at the state mandated test scores. To effectively evaluate how knowledgeable someone is, one should also take into consideration personal knowledge gained from experiences, how developed one’s character is, as well as knowledge acquired in a traditional classroom setting. The problem is that many people only take into consideration how much is gained while in school or college, but not realizing the importance of critical thinking and…

administered considering it to be the end of the learning process moreover the assessment pattern and the learning goals never matched each other and thereby leave the learner ambiguous. Testing of theoretical knowledge…

Knowledge in Absolutist Epistemology As well as showing through the principle of the many and the principle of incompleteness that there are valid ways of gaining knowledge apart from the dominant sciences, a key strength to the relativist argument is its ability to consider subjugated knowledges. According to the standard view of knowledge, different ways of knowing are part of a continuous and unitary epistemological tradition. However, instead of being equally considered knowledge is…

tradition hear differently from an outsider? An insider to a musical tradition hears it differently compare to an outsider. The insider tends to react to his or her own cultural music in ways that draw on a lifetime of consciously absorbed cultural knowledge and attitude while the outsider tries not to bring ethnocentrism into her or his interpretations. Hearing a musical an insider understood the music and she he can perform while an outsider hears and performs the music, but an outsider cannot…

While exploring the relationship between our shared knowledge and our individual knowledge, we see that there is an influence from both directions. Shared knowledge, in this context, is the knowledge belonging to a particular group of people who may be collaboratively working together, either in a separate ‘space and time’ or different places. On the other hand, personal knowledge can be interpreted as knowledge resulting from the influence of my own individual perspective, which includes…

performances assessment What are performance assessments? According to Scott King-Owen (2007) performance assessments imply that students are doing a complex task. The focus of a performance assessment is to see how well a student can apply his or her knowledge of content by using the skills that he or she has learned. Performance assessment is said by its advocators to be more in line with instruction than multiple-choice tests. With an emphasis on a closer similarity between observed…

higher school students’ learning in various STEM subjects. Nevertheless, fewer studies have been conducted for exploring the application of CTAT in college STEM courses, particularly for African American students. The proposed research will fill the knowledge gap by answering following question: (1) To what extent can STEM faculty use CTAT to develop ITS for delivering the desired pedagogy? (2) What are impacts of the ITS-based SRL assessment on the development of a deeper understanding of…

According to Develay (1996) The effective pedagogy bases itself on four principles: 1. It must be constructivist in a sense that knowledge and expertise is build by the learner from the simple to the complexe. 2. It must be interactive to create a context stimulating the interactions between the students, the students and the teacher, the student and the learning subject. 3. It has to act on the motivation of the students for learning and on their feeling of competence, in particular by…