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What Needs to be Taught? — Part I: A History
Originally published on September 21, 2021 by Jeff Bloom During my career as an educator, which started off as a leap off of a cliff into a raging fire, I became increasingly concerned with the issue of “what to teach.” … Continue reading
Posted in community, complexity, corporatization, learning and cognition, relationships, schooling, teaching
Tagged Alfred North Whitehead, authoritarianism, Cognition, Control, epistemology, Gregory Bateson, knowledge, Politiics, Standards, Testing
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Fellow traveler... delighted to discover your Mind Watching series. Our paths criss-crossed for over a decade, stating in Milwaukee of…