A shift from an old to a new Learning paradigm of Meaningful learning
The whole purpose of education is to make it a really interesting and meaningful experience for learners and teachers, both. To appreciate the need and scope for such a project, we will need to examine the old and the new paradigms of learning.
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What |
Does What ? |
Moves away to |
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Old paradigm |
New paradigm |
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Stuffing in information |
Makes one’s knowledge second hand, not validated |
Drawing out from within, one’s own validated knowledge |
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Convention of society, books, experts |
Shapes your personality according to outer influences |
To live out of your own true being-the one that is never conditioned |
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Preset curriculum, agenda |
Feeds corporate, adult agenda |
Learning is a result of what one need to learn |
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Subject-pedagogical focus |
Promotes linear, propositional knowledge |
Towards holistic, multidisciplinary knowledge |
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Imposed discipline |
Makes one conform |
Living out of freedom and choice |
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