Teaching what Can't be Taught: The Shaman's StrategyThe current educational culture of standards, accountability, and creeping educational capitalism finds teachers increasingly teaching laundry lists of facts and skills. Less attention is being paid to the 'big picture' or worldview. Author David Rigoni offers an alternative perspective. Using a shaman metaphor, he examines how the most important learning in a professional program takes place between the lines of the formal curriculum. He argues that this worldview change ought to be intentional and that all aspects of the educational process ought to work to that end. To clarify what is needed, the book then looks to educators from throughout history who worked with their students with a total focus on changing their worldviews. These educators, of course, are the shamans. |
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... universe is relative . Certainty exists only within our limited sensory perceptions because we all share a world moving at a similar speed . So although in premodern times we “ knew " that the sun revolved around the Earth , and in ...
... universe is relative . Certainty exists only within our limited sensory perceptions because we all share a world moving at a similar speed . So although in premodern times we “ knew " that the sun revolved around the Earth , and in ...
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... universe is a dance of shifting en- ergy and mass . Space is filled with subatomic particles such as muons ( subatomic particles that exist for less than a millionth of a second ) , flash- ing briefly in and out of existence ...
... universe is a dance of shifting en- ergy and mass . Space is filled with subatomic particles such as muons ( subatomic particles that exist for less than a millionth of a second ) , flash- ing briefly in and out of existence ...
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... universe created by his the- ories . He is well known for having said , " God doesn't play dice with the universe . " He died without successfully developing his unified theory . But other attempts at a single one - explains - all ...
... universe created by his the- ories . He is well known for having said , " God doesn't play dice with the universe . " He died without successfully developing his unified theory . But other attempts at a single one - explains - all ...
Contents
The Paradox of Teaching and Learning | 41 |
The Shamans Strategy | 65 |
A Case Study | 101 |
Copyright | |
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