During my studies at Ohio State I have come across many authors who support the ideas behind project-based learning. I believe every educator should aspire to emulate their practices:
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(click on each name for more information)
- bell hooks
- "The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom with all its limitations remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labour for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom."
- Book: Teaching to Transgress
- Paulo Freire
- "Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."
- "Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects."
- "For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other."
- John Dewey
- "Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself."
- "We only think when we are confronted with a problem."
- Sir Ken Robinson
- Video: Changing Education Paradigms
- Video: Bring on the Learning Revolution
- Video: Schools Kill Creativity
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