1. F R . J O M A R L E G A S P I
G O D ’ S G U T S Y G E E K

2. Obsolescent means worn out
but still in USE

4. HIERARCHICAL

5. HIERARCHICAL
Knowledge divided into fields…kingdoms…ruled by
people who are fit to teach (doctors) or to speak
with (professors).

6. HIERARCHICAL
Knowledge divided into fields…kingdoms…ruled by
people who are fit to teach (doctors) or to speak
with (professors).
Academic achievement: ladders of “degrees”
= step up ladders to knowledge

7. Knowledge defined by learned
persons….in authority

8. Knowledge defined by learned
persons….in authority
AUTHORS

9. Learning environment, design and experience reflected
the infrastructure and processes of an industrial factory.
Standardization: standardised mass
manufactured ‘facts”
Specializations: subjects, year groups,
sequencing

10. Learning environment, design and experience reflected
the infrastructure and processes of an industrial factory.
Standardization: standardised mass
manufactured ‘facts”
Specializations: subjects, year groups,
sequencing

11. Concentration: …criminals were rounded up
and concentrated in prisons, the mentally ill
rounded up in and put in “lunatic asylums”,
and children rounded up and concentrated in
schools, exactly as schools were concentrated
in factories.
(Peter Drucker)

12. Centralization: districts, divisions,
bureaus, departments – curriculum as
well as strategies

13. What’s wrong with this picture?

14. “Schools are still modeled on a curious mix of
the factory, the asylum and the prison... We
are glad to see the end of the traditional
factory; why should we expect the school
modeled on it to be welcome to children?”
(Hargreaves)

15. Knowledge can’t be taught nor
transmitted.

16. Knowledge is CONSTRUCTED.

17. Learning is indexed on experience.

18. Kids learn in different ways…
multiple intelligences

19. Did you know?

20. Why Not?

21. OPEN Learning Spaces …
connected to a community of Learners

22. Creativity is given as much importance
as numeracy and literacy.

23. Teachers are designers of learning
environment / experience rather than
purveyors of information and content.

24. How can we prepare our kids for a
future that we have not yet defined
with a tools and strategies of a world
that has been….let alone dead?

25. If you can Google it, why teach it?

26. End of Schooling…
Beginning of Learning