What do learning , teaching, and schooling MEAN

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What do learning , teaching,and schooling MEAN?

• Robert Gandy
• MIT 2009

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Statement of purpose

• My paper critically examines the processes of
  learning, teaching and schooling, and argues that
  learning based in educational experiences that
  are thoughtfully guided is one way to improve
  schools from within.

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Learning

• Learning is a continual process in which
  individuals educational experiences build upon
  each other through sociocultural interaction and
  participation, creating successive waves of
  regeneration to the conscious and physical self.

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Teaching

• Teaching is the facilitation of this process
  through the careful mediation of educational
  experiences appropriate for the individual.

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Schooling

• Schooling is a cultural institution with the real
  potential of bringing together communities of
  learners that actively engage in a communal sense
  of purpose.

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Conclusions

• Schools isolate individuals from their community,
  individual interests and passions, and are
  therefore ineffective educational experiences. It
  is the opinion of this author that teachers today
  must innovate from within the system of
  education.
• In collaboration with the influential voices of
  the past presented in this paper, teachers can
  use educational theory and research to guide and
  assist them in restructuring the ways schools and
  society conceptualize learning, teaching, and
  schooling.
• The goal of this inquiry into developmental
  learning theory is to help educators move toward
  a more locally situated, experiential mode of
  education that is meaningful to the individual
  student in both the classroom and their future.
  Schools across America can then begin to craft
  more progressive, inclusive educational
  philosophies that are necessary to find common
  ground with a multiplicity of individual
  learners.