@Knotmyday
Granted my statement is pretty vague and general and I would have a hell of a time doing that research. Maybe when I’m paid for it I’ll pursue it.
But it is from experience after having gone through the system and having been a teacher in it.
The groundbreaking educational theories of person like Paolo Freire which I learned as an educator are being implemented rarely if at all. He challenged the “banking theory of education” which states that children are just repositories for facts and given instruction in this manner. We reward this type of parroting and recitation as learning. Consider the countless tests that we’ve aced but have little recollection. Furthermore the instructor and instructed are both actively learning in his model. The instructor is as much taught by the students as student is taught by the teacher.
To think that such work can be realized when the theoretical context is separated in such a way from the learners’ concrete experiences is only possible for one who judges that the content is taught without reference to and independently from what the learners already know from their experiences prior to entering school….
He argued against models of education that are still extensively used to instruct:
Content cannot be taught, except in an authoritarian, vanguardist way, as if it was a set of things, pieces of knowledge, that can be superimposed on or juxtaposed to the conscious body of the learners. Teaching, learning, and knowing have nothing to do with this mechanistic practice.