Learning in Depth: Students as Experts

Autor/inn/en	Egan, Kieran; Madej, Krystina
Titel	Learning in Depth: Students as Experts
Quelle	In: Education Canada, 49 (2009) 2, S.18-20 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1253
Schlagwörter	Pilot Projects; Learning Strategies; Knowledge Level; Educational Philosophy; Expertise; Educational Strategies; Foreign Countries; Learner Engagement; Student Development; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pilot project; Modellversuch; Pilotprojekt; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Wissensbasis; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Expert appraisal; Lehrstrategie; Ausland; Kanada
Abstract	Nearly everyone who has tried to describe an image of the educated person, from Plato to the present, includes at least two requirements: first, educated people must be widely knowledgeable and, second, they must know something in depth. The authors would like to advocate a somewhat novel approach to "learning in depth" (LiD) that seems likely to meet the second requirement for an educated person. Their aim is to describe a simple and relatively inexpensive addition to the curriculum that could have a transformative influence on the school and radically change most students' experience of education in the process. The basic idea is that, in the first week of schooling, all children would be assigned a topic that they would continue to learn about during their whole school career, in addition to the usual curriculum. Topics could be as varied as apples, ships, dust, the solar system, or the circus. The aim is that each child, by the time of graduation from high school, will know as much about that topic as almost anyone on earth. This article discusses the benefits of in-depth learning, and looks at some potential objections and some suggested responses explaining why none of them is sufficiently compelling to discourage everyone from establishing some LiD pilot projects. (Contains 9 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10