On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Bill Kerr <billk...@gmail.com> wrote: > The other thing I should have said about rob's post but didn't was that I > pretty much agree with all of it as a description of the reality we face, > ie. my experiences of being an innovative teacher are similar enough to what > rob describes as to make it pointless to quibble about the differences > > my support for the continuation of widespread unreasonable behaviour (in the > xo tradition) is based on acceptance of that reality
In my experience, the homeschool community provides a nice space for meaningfully unreasonable behavior. Especially unschoolers. Also, consider research restrictions. It takes from several months to half a year in my county to get all the necessary permissions for an educational study in public schools, whereas it only takes the internal IRB approval to work with homescholers. Families and local communities should not be overlooked as powerful agents of change. -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath our email group http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
