Comments on: Child-Centered Learning: Are We Going Too Far? http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/04/01/child-centered-learning-are-we-going-too-far/ Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:59:33 -0600 hourly 1 By: GG http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/04/01/child-centered-learning-are-we-going-too-far/comment-page-1/#comment-8275 GG Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:04:13 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/04/01/child-centered-learning-are-we-going-too-far/#comment-8275 Hello Mr Swanson, Can you possible provide the name of the journal in which the paper that miss Grossen wrote is published. I am unable to use the website that you provided. I am an SFU Graduate student looking at Child Centered vs Subject Centered teaching! that would be great. Hello Mr Swanson,

Can you possible provide the name of the journal in which the paper that miss Grossen wrote is published. I am unable to use the website that you provided. I am an SFU Graduate student looking at Child Centered vs Subject Centered teaching! that would be great.

]]> By: Diana Senechal http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/04/01/child-centered-learning-are-we-going-too-far/comment-page-1/#comment-4173 Diana Senechal Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:32:32 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/04/01/child-centered-learning-are-we-going-too-far/#comment-4173 Dear Mr. Swanson, Thank you for your comment and for the link to the article! It is quite interesting and detailed. I will keep it on file as a resource. Best, Diana Senechal Dear Mr. Swanson,

Thank you for your comment and for the link to the article! It is quite interesting and detailed. I will keep it on file as a resource.

Best,

Diana Senechal

]]> By: Chuck Swanson http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/04/01/child-centered-learning-are-we-going-too-far/comment-page-1/#comment-4171 Chuck Swanson Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:25:08 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/04/01/child-centered-learning-are-we-going-too-far/#comment-4171 I was putting together an annotate bibliography, and came across your comments on child-centered learning. I happen to agree with your comments,and wanted to send you a study from Bonnie Grossen at univ of Oregon. She has a relatively long paper that shreds the child-centered learning, and I thought you might like to see it - if you don't already now about it. The page is at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~bgrossen/pubs/cdp.htm I also have a pdf of the study but don't know how to attache it to this. I have never even looked at a blog before, so I hope this works. Chuck Swanson I was putting together an annotate bibliography, and came across your comments on child-centered learning. I happen to agree with your comments,and wanted to send you a study from Bonnie Grossen at univ of Oregon. She has a relatively long paper that shreds the child-centered learning, and I thought you might like to see it – if you don’t already now about it.

The page is at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~bgrossen/pubs/cdp.htm

I also have a pdf of the study but don’t know how to attache it to this.

I have never even looked at a blog before, so I hope this works.

Chuck Swanson

]]> By: Adso of Melk http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/04/01/child-centered-learning-are-we-going-too-far/comment-page-1/#comment-1548 Adso of Melk Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:19:46 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/04/01/child-centered-learning-are-we-going-too-far/#comment-1548 I heartily agree -- and I am distressed by the inherent assumptions made by CLL, specifically: 1. Learning is inherently distasteful to most people, and like Mary Poppins' magic potion, it must therefore change flavors to suit all palates or no one will swallow it. 2. Rarely is it ever explained what the "guide on the side" is guiding students TOWARDS. No goal is given, no specifics are offered, no capital letters or concrete nouns are used. 3. If students do not learn, it is wholly and solely the fault of the teacher. 4. Most students cannot learn material that is "hard." Most of Western literature is "hard." Very thought-provoking post. I heartily agree — and I am distressed by the inherent assumptions made by CLL, specifically:

1. Learning is inherently distasteful to most people, and like Mary Poppins’ magic potion, it must therefore change flavors to suit all palates or no one will swallow it.

2. Rarely is it ever explained what the “guide on the side” is guiding students TOWARDS. No goal is given, no specifics are offered, no capital letters or concrete nouns are used.

3. If students do not learn, it is wholly and solely the fault of the teacher.

4. Most students cannot learn material that is “hard.” Most of Western literature is “hard.”

Very thought-provoking post.

]]> By: The 166th Carnival of Education « The Elementary Educator http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/04/01/child-centered-learning-are-we-going-too-far/comment-page-1/#comment-1434 The 166th Carnival of Education « The Elementary Educator Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:56:07 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/04/01/child-centered-learning-are-we-going-too-far/#comment-1434 [...] Ipsum’s scathing ”Why Gifted Students Still Hate School”, a counterintuitive post asking if Child-Centered Learning has gone too far, and Lead From the Start’s post about great teachers being “warm demanders” who [...] [...] Ipsum’s scathing ”Why Gifted Students Still Hate School”, a counterintuitive post asking if Child-Centered Learning has gone too far, and Lead From the Start’s post about great teachers being “warm demanders” who [...]

]]> By: Strategy without knowledge at Joanne Jacobs http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/04/01/child-centered-learning-are-we-going-too-far/comment-page-1/#comment-560 Strategy without knowledge at Joanne Jacobs Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:34:15 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/04/01/child-centered-learning-are-we-going-too-far/#comment-560 [...] drama and English as a Second Language teacher, wonders whether schools are going overboard on child-centered and brain-based learning, “glorifying the strategy at the expense of knowledge, and accommodating the individual [...] [...] drama and English as a Second Language teacher, wonders whether schools are going overboard on child-centered and brain-based learning, “glorifying the strategy at the expense of knowledge, and accommodating the individual [...]

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