Categoria: Educazione Primaria

Categorie
Educazione Primaria

Separate subjects

Separate subjects are extracts or selections from the different disciplines of knowledge,  that are given in isolation. This selection represents the ideals and the pattern of the  dominant culture, reflecting a single reality. 

In them, knowledge is decontextualised from social issues, because it does not connect  learnings to such situations. This makes it impossible for children to adapt properly to  the society. Moreover, this produces a lack of significance, since it is impossible a  connection between acquiered and previous knowledge. 

Separate subjects are the knowledge, which students must achieve, being a unique and  closed answer, not giving place to exploration and creativity. 

From this perspective, there is a great concern for the amount of content, so there is a  confrontation between learning and teaching. In addition, there is a hierarchy of  subjects, and because of that, some subjects become more important than others. Finally, what we want to reflect with the video is that the existing frontiers between the  different disciplines should be blurred.

References 

Beane, J. A. (2005). La integración del currículum y las disciplinas del conocimiento.  En J. A. Beane, La integración del currículum, pp. 61-71. Madrid: Morata.

Authorship

Yarina Alonso Mediavilla, Alicia Castanedo Cubas y Sara Gestera Aramburu, 2020.

Categorie
Educazione Primaria

Infantilization

Infantilization refers to the attitude that adults have towards children, based on the contempt  and undervaluation of their abilities, since they consider that they are not capable and treat them  as something unintelligent.

There are two infantilizing strategies.

On the one hand, we can fall  into waltdisneization, in which children are kept in a fantasy world, away from social  inequalities and injustices. Reality is presented to them with unreal or fantasy characters,  accompanied by cartoonish descriptions, and this makes children not know how to distinguish  between reality and fiction.

On the other hand, with the tourist curriculum, we bring children  closer to different cultures in a banal, superficial way, with stereotypes. For this, drawings are  used, which make those cultures ridiculed and devalued; and although children know that the  drawings are simply drawings, a vision of these situations as something unreal is promoted and  it contributes to the preservation of dominant stereotypes. 

Authorship

Mirella Barcenilla Vegara, Izan Cadavieco Miguélez,  Adriana Gutiérrez Lavín y Nerea Gutiérrez Suárez, 2020.

Categorie
Educazione Primaria

Cooperative learning

Cooperative learning was defined in the Modern School as a principle of companionship and mutual support.

It is an educational practice, that has had multitude of investigations regarding to the great academic impact and affective, social and cognitive development of students.

This learning is about working together to achieve common objectives. They are small heterogeneous groups, so they can cooperate with each other in an effective and collaborative way.

The elements that make up this learning are: mutual positive interdependence (they are unable to achieve success unless all the members of the group achieve it) simultaneous interaction, both group and individual responsibility, group self-assessment and self-regulation, and interpersonal skills (social, communicative or cooperative) in addition to participation with equal opportunities.

References 

http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?pid=S0185-26982018000300181&script=sci_arttext

https://edicionescalasancias.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Cuaderno-11.pdf

Authorship

Mar Carrasco López, 2020.

Categorie
Educazione Primaria

Curriculum as content

https://youtu.be/3mgZnaLnt5o

In an educational environment, this is the more relevant or used  form of defining the Curriculum word. The curriculum is defined as a series of units of  contents in order to carry out an easy learning, supporting the previous units which pupils  already control. The problem of curriculum as content is that it drives out any mention of  the educative process and omits the issues of cultural selection. This meaning of  curriculum could be understood as a tool of spreading the knowledge in a reproductive  way. It is a script that must be followed strictly, ignoring all of the aspects out of the  scholar field.

Authorship

Andrea Castillo García, Celia Barbadillo y Elena Barquín, 2020.

Categorie
Educazione Primaria

Psychologization

The psychologization of social, sexist and racial problems is a way of explaining situations of marginality by focusing on the individual without taking into account the social structures of power, which are the cause of such situations of marginality.

For example, in this period of confinement, there were families that had problems in providing technological resources so that their children could follow online education; in that situation, some media blamed families for the scarcity of these resources, instead of seeing the existing responsibility in society.

Authorship

Alejandra Díaz Heredia, Marina Calleja de la Fuente, Rocío García Rasines y Ana Fanjul Cobo, 2020.

Categorie
Educazione Primaria

Work projects

Project learning in the classroom is an innovative educational method that arises from Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. This methodology allows children to acquire knowledge and skills by becoming protagonists of their own learning. In this way, they will be able to develop their autonomy by being responsible for planning, structuring, implementing and evaluating their own work. That is, they can actively participate in their own educational process. This perspective tries to claim the transgressive and creative potential of work projects based on the search for non-fragmented knowledge and the development of an integrated curriculum.

To carry out this work plan, we must take into account what we want to do, why we are going to do it, what we are going to need, what we will do it with, where we can find what is necessary, and who is going to do each task and how.

Authorship

Alejandra Alonso y Sara Alonso, 2020.