I've recently become interested in pedagogy, and certainly the stuff recommended in the books I've read (which a friend, who works in education, told me was standard, middle-of-road stuff) is much more interactive than I recall as a child and involves relatively little lecturing. If this translates to the classroom I can't say.
Look, I'm not saying the way education is delivered in $YOUR_COUNTRY cannot be improved. I very much agree it can be. But what the author seems to be advocating is some romanticised pastoral lifestyle that is unobtainable to the majority, along with a heavy doses of "the noble savage" and other unsubstantiated woo. Home schooling is a luxury. Small classes are a luxury. Tell me something that can actually be delivered to the majority of children. Do some studies to show it works. Then I'll be interested.
FWIW, the techniques discussed in my pedagogy books have effect sizes that amount to about a 2 grade level improvement and they typically require less work of the teacher. That's stuff everyone can do---if the school environment allows it.
I happen to agree with you about the author. My experience student teaching, though, showed me that for all the pedagogy I studied, the entire school system was still geared toward the same basic goals as it was in the 1900's. If you're studying pedagogy because you're wanting to enter or change the system, just be aware that the things you're learning are great ideas that may have very little institutional support.
"Home schooling is a luxury. Small classes are a luxury"
Developed countries are assumed went thru a few decades of economic growth and productivity gains. I think they should be ready for some universal, commonplace luxuries.
Look, I'm not saying the way education is delivered in $YOUR_COUNTRY cannot be improved. I very much agree it can be. But what the author seems to be advocating is some romanticised pastoral lifestyle that is unobtainable to the majority, along with a heavy doses of "the noble savage" and other unsubstantiated woo. Home schooling is a luxury. Small classes are a luxury. Tell me something that can actually be delivered to the majority of children. Do some studies to show it works. Then I'll be interested.
FWIW, the techniques discussed in my pedagogy books have effect sizes that amount to about a 2 grade level improvement and they typically require less work of the teacher. That's stuff everyone can do---if the school environment allows it.