I would also add that Contructivism is the flavor of the month for now. This is the experiential style of learning promoted by Montessori, Piaget and Dewey.
Just like the stock market, the pendulum will swing in the other direction in the future and Behaviorism (B.F. Skinner, Itard, etc.) will come back into vogue, no doubt. Dan On Dec 22, 2013, at 8:46 PM, Dan Penoff wrote: > It's by no means "touchy-feely" any more. It's all data driven. I see > kindergarten teachers with 3" binders full of data they have collected on > individual students. It's all about the data now. > > Dan > > > On Dec 22, 2013, at 8:43 PM, Mountain Man wrote: > >> Dieselhead wrote: >>> But the prior post about "the 'merkuns didn't want to know.." or something >>> to that effect is not true. FDR installed Deming to make the 'merkun war >>> production hum. >> >> Loss of Deming/SPC methods seems evident in the education arena. Correct? >> It seems that everything has turned touchy feely instead of discreet >> quantitative. Everything. >> It can all be summarized as religion. We live under totalitarian >> religious-industrial-complex. >> Don't say God. >> mao >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
