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Current learning models are stifling: Leadbeater
Future learning models must be built around the purpose and application of education rather than the attainment of knowledge aimed at satisfying examiners, an internationally renowned expert says.
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Creative and Critical Thinking were at the core of so much teaching in the 70’s. When students reach the level of higher thinking at university, wouldn’t we love to know that minds were open enough to persue learning for the sake of it! “What is alarming is how education for them is at that point where it has become simply reduced to getting what your examiner is looking for and the better [you reflect that] the better your result.” How sad for our energetic, imaginative young minds to know you are only as good as a score.
so true, in some ways it become a tick box exercise