viernes, 1 de mayo de 2015

Offbeat & Devious thinkers:Counterculture?

Trying to see the world the other way round has long been a tradition in Western thought. There is a line from the late XVIIIth century Romanticism to the LGBT counterculture of our early XXIst century which passes through Bohemianism, the beat generation, the hippy and punk movements of the XXth century. Classic counterculture novels include Henry Miller´s Tropic of Cancer, Slaughterhouse five by Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller´s Catch 22 or Erica Jong´s Fear of Flying.
In this project we ask you to choose one of the  30 authors below and to explain briefly their most outstanding contributions to our educational culture. They are all mixed up chronologically so a little time order will do us good to understand ourselves:

GEORGES GUSDORF        (why teachers?)

A.S. NEILL                           (Summerhill experiences)

PAULO FREIRE                 (Pedagogy of the oppressed)

MARÍA MONTESSORI     (Spontaneous Activity in Education)

EVERETT REIMER          (School is dead)(Alternatives in Education)

HERBERT KOHL               (36 Children)

GEORGE D.P.CARLIN      (Things not to say)

JOHN TAYLOR GATTO    (Against School)

IVAN ILLICH                      (Deschooling Society)

GRACE  LLEWELLYN      (Homeschooling)

ALFIE KOHN                     (No Grades,  No Homework)

JOHN HOLT                      (From Homeschooling to Unschooling)

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS   ( On God)

KEN ROBINSON             (Lack of School Creativity)

CHARLOTTE THOMSON ISERBYT  (The dumbing down of the world)

DENNIS ATKINSON        (Innovative Practices in the Classroom)

JOHAN HEINRICH PESTALOZZI (Thought  experiments)

SUGATA MITRA             (Unstoppable Learning) 

FRIEDRICH FROEBEL  (Educational Toys)

JEAN PIAGET                   (Cognitive Development)

CARL ROGERS                (Self actualization)

LEV VYGOTSKY             (Collaborative Learning)

DAVID AUSUBEL           (Meaningful Learning) 

HOWARD GARDNER    (Multiple Intelligences) 

DANIEL GOLEMAN      (Emotional Intelligence) 

RUDOLPH STEINER    (Holistic Education)

JIDDU  KRISHNAMURTI  (Alternative   "  )

FRANCISCO GINER DE LOS RÍOS (Learning FREEDOM) 

MARGARET BANCROFT   (Special Needs)

JOHN DEWEY                    (Free Personalities)

JEROME BRUNER           (Learning by Discovery)

 

see  Alternet.org; Edutopia.org;Teachhub.com; Open Culture.com