Knowledge Rich 2.0? In Flanders’ Classrooms ….
Author, Alisdair Wade, Thinking Matters
The term ‘silent majority’ suggests that it is the minorities who are the noisiest. And so it plays out in education too. The argument is ongoing as to who is ‘right’ between the ‘trads’ and the ‘progs’.
To be clear, we are looking at these groups through the caricatures they paint of each other. The progs, for instance, would claim that the trads believe: “Knowledge is the only thing. Rote learning is key, exams must be passed to get up the league tables and so all they do is drill, drill, drill.”
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