jueves, 1 de marzo de 2012
Schools and creativity by Sir Ken Robinson.
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Do you agree with Sir Ken Robinson? Is school killing creativity? If so, what can teachers do to avoid it?
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ResponderEliminarI couldn't agree more with Sir Ken Robinson’s ideas. Despite the latest educational reforms, our educational system still aims to 'normalise' Ss’ behaviour and ‘standardise’ their thought, just like canned food on a conveyor belt, maybe? Are we sort of ‘canning’ old ideas into our students’ mind?
ResponderEliminarThen, those school subjects that can help Ss to develop their creativity or those aspects of intelligence that aren’t directly connected to what’s considered to be academic knowledge (like Music, Arts, Dancing and even PE) are still being looked down on.
For instance, at primary schools, they’re, together with English, informally called ‘materias especiales’. They’re thought to be ‘special’ because, in practical terms, they have a much lighter weighting (in both teaching and assessment) than Maths, Spanish, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences do. What I mean is, the so-called special subjects don’t account for what Ss have learnt by the end of the school year in the same way as the other four school subjects do.
Music, Arts, Dancing, PE and foreign languages foster the development of other important aspects of intelligence. If they’re special at all, it’s in that sense, I believe.
How could we, teachers of a foreign language, foster creativity? This language is, in most cases, not needed by our students, not enjoyed by them.
ResponderEliminarOur adolescent /adult students of poorer areas, suburban population do not see the learning of another language a as "plus" in their education; they think they will never travel, they do not need another language to communicate, language is seldom considered a tool for communication among peers, studying a lot is not well seen...
How could be become more creative so as to make them see "all the benefits of learning another language FOR COMMUNICATIVE purposes?
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