I only previously only used constructivist for both theories. I found this chapter really clarified this very well. In fact, I thought all the theories of engaged learning were very well explained. I couldn't help but thinking of students and current assignments as I was reading it.I think over the years I've adapted my style of teaching as students & society evolved; however, I felt behind in technology - this I'm taking this program to get with the times.
The critical theory is one that I really used a lot teaching grade 12 Global Geography in French Immersion. Some of the atrocities I've seen in Asia since (like the Killing Fields in Cambodia and seeing the horrors of the Viet Nam war in the American War Museum in Saigon and out in the Chu Chi tunnels nearby) I can't really share with my grade 6's now - maybe a bit of child labour in Indonesia. I really liked reading Paulo Freire (I think my first Masters at the Mount) and his beliefs. I've always taught my students to question textbooks, giving the example of the Columbus Controversy (check out the video that an American teacher did, Bill Bigelow), but that was mostly when I taught Medieval History in grade 11.
One other point from this chapter is that I had not heard of the term, "Twenty-First-Century Learning Theory", but quite like the description of the 4C's. I do try to apply the 4C's as I lesson plan, but after 27 years of teaching, I do so instinctively more than consciously.
Mike
The critical theory is one that I really used a lot teaching grade 12 Global Geography in French Immersion. Some of the atrocities I've seen in Asia since (like the Killing Fields in Cambodia and seeing the horrors of the Viet Nam war in the American War Museum in Saigon and out in the Chu Chi tunnels nearby) I can't really share with my grade 6's now - maybe a bit of child labour in Indonesia. I really liked reading Paulo Freire (I think my first Masters at the Mount) and his beliefs. I've always taught my students to question textbooks, giving the example of the Columbus Controversy (check out the video that an American teacher did, Bill Bigelow), but that was mostly when I taught Medieval History in grade 11.
One other point from this chapter is that I had not heard of the term, "Twenty-First-Century Learning Theory", but quite like the description of the 4C's. I do try to apply the 4C's as I lesson plan, but after 27 years of teaching, I do so instinctively more than consciously.
Mike