Curious to hear people’s ideas on how education would look in such a world.
For me, I’d like to see it moved away from testing and results based learning.
A stronger focus on physical engagement with things, e.g. learning biology by going out and cataloging wildlife and learning what’s in a local ecosystem before coming together and researching findings and looking for new questions to ask.
Less sitting around at desks being fed information and a greater focus on individual agency in exploring topics of interest.
Not to say there isn’t a time and a place for “high level” stuff where you need to deep dive into books and listen to lectures, but there needs to be a greater balance in methodology.
Got any concerns or questions you'd like to discuss? Share them here and I (we? please join me I'm so lonely) will do our best to answer them.
As the title says it's a community based around early years learning and development, so from birth up to pre-school.
Mainly aimed at educators, teachers, and anyone else who works with these age ranges but more than happy to field questions from parents who may be wanting more information to help them.
It's a bit of a niche community, so I'm going to struggle to grow it but Lemmy needs more industry professional spaces!
Edit: It's a .au domain, but the community is for everyone no matter where you live.
Links to Community:
Early Childhood Education
!earlychildhood@quokk.au
quokk.au/c/earlychildhood
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