By:
Todd Molander
Scott Reffel
Ben Rude
Nathan Schmidt
Jack Seltenright
Lev Vygotsky (1896-1943)
• The essentials of a Vygotskian Social Constructivist Perspective for
Education For teachers:
a belief that education is to develop a student’s personality;
a belief that education is to facilitate the development of the
creative potential of students;
a belief that effective learning requires the active involvement
of the learner
a belief that teachers direct and guide the individual activity of
the students but they do not dictate or force their own will on
them.
Authentic teaching and learning come through a collaboration
by adults with students
a belief that the most valuable methods for students’ teaching
and learning correspond to their developmental and individual
characteristics, and therefore these methods cannot be uniform
a belief that schools should provide the tools that learners
need to internalize the ways of thinking central to participation in
the cultural world around them.
Lev Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal
Development
•
task level: too easy
result: boredom
scaffolding: none
• task level: appropriate
result: learning
scaffolding: some
• task level: too difficult
result: frustration
scaffolding: much
• http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=hx84hi3w8U
Lisa Delpit
• Books by Lisa Delpit:
• - The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in
Educating Other People's Children
- The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and
the Education of African American Children
(1998)
- The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language
and Culture in the Classroom (2002)
- Other's People's Children: Cultural Conflict in
the Classroom (1995)
Lisa Delpit
Contributions to Education:
• Miscommunication in the classroom.
• Usage of non-standard English in classrooms.
• Ten Factors Essential to Success in Urban
Classrooms
Mortimer Adler (1902- 2001)
• He was an American philosopher, educator, and author.
• He worked for Columbia University, the University of Chicago,
Encyclopedia Britannica, and Adler's own Institute for Philosophical
Research.
• He wrote over 50 books ranging from Britannica's Great Books of
the Western World, The Great Ideas Program, Gateway to the
Great Books, The Annals of America, and Encyclopedia Britannica
• No one truly gets educated in school. “I now think I am educated, I
have forgotten most of the things I have learned in school.”
• Schools are not at their best
• The biggest thing that students acquire in schools is the ability to
learn
• Writing, reading, good speech, and good behavior
Mortimer Adler (Ideas On Education)
• All students should receive a classics based
education
• The Great Books program where the Socratic
method is used is an example of a model he
developed, and many variations came off of
this as well.
• Adler wanted students to be critical thinkers.
• Believed learning was a life long process
• Not in favor of standardized test
• Paideia Proposal
Key Points
Sources