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	as an educator, the term to educate can have the connotation that students are passive learners or empty vessels, but on the other hand sometimes when we expound unfamiliar material to students we are educating because we are teaching something they never have been exposed to. as for constructivism, yes this is how we can teach students to be active learners and problem solvers and thinkers. therefore, we hope that students will learn not to identify with the left or the right but to indentify with what they deem a possible solution to a social, political, scientific or economic problem.
edith


> De: jeff courtman <[log in to unmask]>
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> Objet: ID, Evolution, jesse helms, etc.
> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 09:30:19 -0500

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> This last round about Darwin's intent, Jesse Helm, etc.....
>  
> if, part of the mission, is to help people learn, I am leary of the word
> educate, we might draw some understanding from constructivism, one of
> the models we seem to pretty much agree has a lot to offer. I'm talking
> about an agreement on the macro level, because I'm no expert, its a very
> large area of study, and you probably know a lot more than me about
> theory. Knowledge, from the constructivist point of view, is made up of
> lots of building blocks which in turn consist of "Things I have
> learned." 
>  
> One of the precepts, again, only as I understand it, is that in areas
> where I've learned lots of things, it is unlikely that your presenting
> me with facts will make the slightest bit of difference in my model of
> my universe.
>  
> Rather than retreating to a position of circling the wagons, or raising
> the drawbridge, I wonder if we wouldn't be better served in another way.
> If we enter into a discussion where there is strong disagreement, I have
> two options:  I can either rise (or lower myself, as the case may be) to
> your level of intolerance and shout, "You're wrong, you're wrong, you're
> wrong...", or, I can say, "That's a really interesting position.  Here's
> what I think."
>  
> Call me naive. Call me politically unaware. Call me stupid.  It's simply
> the course I choose.
>  
> Jeff Courtman
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