Life in Schools

Expressed by physical setting; they are the spatial designs that shape the way people relate to each

other.

Architectonic Meanings

Life in Schools

Didactic Education : The Modern Past

Authentic Education: More Recent Times

Transformative Education : New Learning

Architectonic Dimension

The classroom of 30 students facing one teacher

Making the most of old classrooms, changing the arrangement of the room

Flexible spaces, no physical boundaries; life-wide and lifelong learning

Architectonic Dimension

Expressed through the patterns of person-to-person communication

Discursive Meanings

Life in Schools

Didactic Education : The Modern Past

Authentic Education: More Recent Times

Transformative Education : New Learning

Discursive Dimension

Teacher-dominated classroom talk, most learners silent for most of the time

Some student – to – student dialogue

Horizontal , learner-learner and learner-teacher dialogue, with the teacher in an authoritative position.

Discursive Dimension

Created in the interaction of one person’s will – their interests, motivations and drives – with another.

Intersubjective Meanings

Life in Schools

Didactic Education : The Modern Past

Authentic Education: More Recent Times

Transformative Education : New Learning

Intersubjective Dimension

Authoritarian systems command with teacher as mouth-piece ; teachers command and learners obey

Learner-centered activities

Learner-surrounded interactivity

Intersubjective Dimension

Emerge from the ways in which a person’s life experiences are negotiated in a particular setting

Socio-cultural Meanings

Life in Schools

Didactic Education : The Modern Past

Authentic Education: More Recent Times

Transformative Education : New Learning

Socio-cultural Dimension

All 30 learners regarded as the same; one-size-fits all curriculum

Some individualized and self-[aced learning; deficit or tokenistic views of difference

Inclusive learning, educational pluralism

Socio-cultural Dimension

Formed in relationships of ownership and control

Proprietary Meanings

Life in Schools

Didactic Education : The Modern Past

Authentic Education: More Recent Times

Transformative Education : New Learning

Proprietary Dimension

Private spaces : ‘my classroom’ (teacher) and ‘my work’ (learner)

Opening up the classroom , some group work

Collaborative learning- anywhere, anytime

Proprietary Dimension

Arising from the ways in which knowledge is represented and created

Epistemological Meanings

Life in Schools

Didactic Education : The Modern Past

Authentic Education: More Recent Times

Transformative Education : New Learning

Epistemological Dimension

Transmission of correct facts and definitive theories from teachers to learners

Generalized learning outcomes and relevant curriculum

Learners as co-designers of knowledge

Epistemological Dimension

Making knowledge that are configured in learning relationships

Pedagocical Meanings

Life in Schools

Didactic Education : The Modern Past

Authentic Education: More Recent Times

Transformative Education : New Learning

Pedagogical Dimension

Learners as passive receptors of knowledge : facts , theories, truths, civic values

Experiential learning, learning how to learn; students as inquirers.

The teacher as a designer of pedagogy ; the learner as tco-designer of learning

Pedagogical Dimension

Underlie the establishment of a balance of power between those who control and those who are

controlled.

Moral Meanings

Life in Schools

Didactic Education : The Modern Past

Authentic Education: More Recent Times

Transformative Education : New Learning

Moral Dimension

Discipline and conformity lead to success ; and blame yourself for failure

Inquiring minds and participating citizens ; ‘opportunity’ to access the ‘mainstream’

Kinds of persons who can navigate , discern, change, negotiate deep diversity , create and innovative.

Moral Dimension

Cope, B. & Kalantzis, M.2008, New Learning : Elements of a Science of Education. Cambridge University Press: Australia

Reference

Cope, B. & Kalantzis, M.2008, New Learning : Elements of a Science of Education. Cambridge University Press: Australi