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This-essay is a8404261.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %ALIENATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCE 840426 All human learning experiences have communal implications. Some learning experiences are inherently communal and integrative; they involve students together learning in a communal way---a way which mutually affirms the acceptability, propriety, and value of the learning process and of what is learned. Other learning experiences tend to be alienative and disintegrative; they involve students who work alone in an individualistic and competitive way which casts into doubt the acceptability, propriety, and value of the learning process and of what is learned. Communities that foster the latter kind of learning tend to disintegrate. Communities that foster the former kind of learning become communicative communities bound to integrate. The craft and art of teaching is dependent upon the ability to lead students into learning experiences which are inherently communal and integrative---because they are inherently more valuable than are alienative and disintegrative learning experiences. Teaching involves making value judgments, setting priorities, allocating scarce resources; i.e., being an academic political leader. Technical skills and factual knowledge are tools used by teachers. Tools do not determine what is made with them. It is the artist and craftsman who select tools, decide what to make with the tools, and direct the way in which the tools are used. Leaders in educational institutions need to focus more of their attention upon the alienative and integrative implications of their endeavors, and of the endeavors of their students. The perfecting, collecting and cataloging of tools is not enough. The artist and craftsman who just collect and catalogue perfected tools are not highly respected. Respect is accorded to the artist and craftsman who careful select and appropriately use tools to achieve goals which contribute to communal integrity and meaning. No less should be true of the teachers and professors in our most respected institutions of learning; especially so in the higher level institutions of learning which set the tone and style for teachers and professors in institutions of learning in which young people begin their learning. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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