Atlas Trail
Five Ways to Teach: Behaviourism to Critical Pedagogy
A path through education's five founding pedagogical approaches, the live debate over how much guidance a novice learner needs, and a real policy succession that shows the same tension playing out in law.
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Pedagogical Approaches
Where the atlas starts: learning as observable, reinforced behaviour.
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Pedagogical Approaches
The shift inward, to the plans and strategies a learner builds mentally.
Stop 3 of 7.
Pedagogical Approaches
Learners construct their own understanding, and a live dissent challenges how much guidance they need to do it well.
Stop 4 of 7.
Open Questions
The open question this wave recorded: does minimal guidance help or hinder a novice?
Stop 5 of 7.
Pedagogical Approaches
A different axis entirely: growth, feeling and self-actualization as the point of learning.
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Pedagogical Approaches
Freire's critical pedagogy, and the same guidance question recast as a question of power.
Stop 7 of 7.
Curriculum, Assessment and Policy
The same tension in law: how much a federal policy should prescribe versus leave to states and schools.
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