1. In the field of science, the main way to learn a concept is to prove it. What is "proof"? I mean to prove its value.
Distinguish its importance first, and the value judgment of the proposition takes precedence.
Science studies facts, not values. He stressed that why it studies this issue, but not that issue, is determined by the value position and orientation of the issue. Prove that any concept is a scientific problem, a factual problem and a logical problem. Why do you want to prove it? What is the motive and the purpose is the value problem? These two problems cannot be separated, that is, understanding and application cannot be separated.
2. Education is an art and needs talent. How to understand it?
Knowing Whitehead's background, we can see that this is one of his opinions. He realized that education is an art, which contains things that science cannot explain. Education needs a kind of talents, which involves two kinds of teachers: those who are born as teachers and those who are trained to be qualified teachers the day after tomorrow. As Sophie and Miss Elsa mentioned in Drucker's Teacher Wynn, or in the discussion of the relationship between motivation and personality, talent and acquired practice, human freedom can be self-expanded through training.
Culture is not only cricket, but also profound knowledge. How to understand it?
In England from 65438 to 0929, cricket and bowling were fashionable at that time, but education emphasized both science and art, and science or art could not be reduced to knowledge or professional knowledge. Just like curriculum activities, education is used to generate wisdom, not to instill knowledge or professional skills.
4. How to let students know the forest with the help of trees?
Are we fragmented learning or systematic learning? What is the essence of learning? The answer is both. Two, and. How to integrate? Introduce a concept, Vygotsky's "everyday concept and scientific concept"
Children's literacy is fragmented, and a system is established after fragmentation. In school, literacy is systematic, and the school has systematic arrangements. Foreign language teaching is moving from scientific concept to everyday concept. The advantage of fragmented learning is that it is not abstract, has no context, and systematic learning is abstract but efficient. Our study is a combination of the two, seeing the forest through the tree, seeing the tree through the forest, from the whole to the part, from the part to the whole, from the daily concept to the scientific concept, that is, the romantic-accurate-comprehensive cycle, the system comes from the teacher's design, roaming from the vast world to fragmentation.
5. Why is the unified off-campus examination system extremely harmful to education?
Evaluation cannot be divorced from the teaching process.
Occasionally, external evaluation is ok, but the entrance exam is correct. That evaluation is different from teaching. There are at least three kinds of assessment: what to teach and what to test are the main forms of teaching assessment; Standardized exams, such as national exams, test whether they meet the curriculum standards. The teacher's task is to pass the national examination. The college entrance examination is selective and has nothing to do with teachers, but with students and parents. Teachers cannot be evaluated by selection exams. In China, however, education is in chaos, and selective examinations are used to replace all evaluations, which is exam-taking.
Classical aristocratic education has no purpose, and teachers evaluate students; Modern education has purposeful and external standardized evaluation; Post-modern education is a combination of qualitative evaluation and quantitative evaluation, self-evaluation and external evaluation, and it is a fusion of various evaluations.
6. Whitehead advocates meaningful learning.
No matter what kind of interest you have in the course, this interest must be aroused at this moment; No matter what kind of ability you want to strengthen students, this ability must be practiced at this moment; No matter how you want to influence students' future spiritual world, you must show it at this moment.
Whitehead opposes formal training.
Think of the brain as a container, first sharpen the knife and then cut the wood. Cutting wood means sharpening the knife, developing abstract memory, meaningless learning and so on. He believes that the process of learning includes understanding, and understanding includes learning. We should not sharpen our efforts to prepare for the future at this moment and become meaningless learning.
Teachers and parents should be wary of formal training, saying that its main problem is dualism, and the whiteboard says that the human brain is a treasure house to be used. In fact, the human brain is not passively accepting knowledge. How can it be stimulated?
Telling a book makes children feel the interaction with the soul at the moment, just like watching a movie. It is education, feeling, moving, and integration with life, just like a triple realm. Knowledge cannot separate life and use it as a tool. We should combine with existing knowledge, existing life experience and inner passion for life. Memory training, recitation training and language knowledge training are all mechanical training.
The problem of formal training is that the ability trained by specific materials cannot be transferred, and thinking can only be trained in real thinking.
Whitehead opposed the separation of disciplines.
The separation of disciplines will bring a sense of meaninglessness, meaning is related to life, life is related to life, and life is unified. A child's life is not a life of mathematics or chemistry, but a whole life including body, cognition and emotion. Buying food is also language and math. Today's project-based learning is a supplement to this separation.
Whitehead opposed the separation of study and examination from the perspective of examination.
Whitehead grasped the essence of education, which is an ideal situation, but it is difficult to do in reality. Nowadays, the screening function of education has given more classes the function of mobility, and more social builders and successors need to be trained. Conflict is accompanied by the process of education, but Whitehead's ideal is a beam of light, which illuminates the practical reasons, students' weariness of learning, psychological obstacles and so on, all of which are related to the separation of education. Current curriculum direction, curriculum integration, comprehensive practice, core literacy. Research-based learning is an attempt under this background. Learn from Whitehead, regard its ideal as a beacon, and shine on our way.
7. What should I do if I want to integrate math learning into my life?
Whitehead emphasized that the most important principle is to master key knowledge; The ability of analysis and reasoning can be obtained by applying this principle.
8. If the textbook is easy, it should be set on fire. How to understand it?
The reason why students are burdened is that learning itself is abstract and meaningless, but it is wrong to reduce the content and burden of learning. Textbooks should not become so easy and do not conform to the principle of high difficulty. The real learning process should conform to the nearest development zone, which is very important in in-depth teaching. You can learn Andersen in primary school 1.2 grade, the difficulty should be improved, the teaching methods should be changed, and the core knowledge should be mastered.
9. If you can't understand the text, how can you understand the memory?
From the perspective of curriculum theory, the knowledge learned is too abstract and the background is not enough; From the perspective of teaching theory, children's brains are not activated and excited. To ask questions, children's eyes should be bright, and old and new knowledge have intersections.
For example, street math, children who don't learn well can buy and sell things in their parents' shops smoothly. Mathematics comes from life and will return to life. There is a gap between school mathematics and street mathematics.
10. The best education is to get the most knowledge with the simplest tools. How to understand it?
The difference between experts and novices is that experts use the simplest tools to acquire knowledge. The average student has many formulas in his mind, but an expert has only a few formulas, and he can deduce all the formulas. These formulas are basic concepts. Education should help children understand concepts more deeply and simplify complex things, which is the road to simplification.