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RE: Integrated Learning
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parenti-@yahoo.co.uk
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Aug 03, 2003 18:48 PDT
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Yes . You are absolutely right. I often say to people that the people who
learn how to ride horses are the people who ride horses.
Peter Rowan
naturalparenting.atfreeweb.com
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From: Quintessence Sent: Friday, 1 August 2003 5:32 PM
To: homesch-@topica.com
Subject: HOMESCHOOLING: Integrated Learning
Have you heard about Integrated Learning? There's a group that discusses
this in more detail, at:
http://groups.msn.com/IntegratedLearning
Here's a preview of what it's about:
To learn another language, one is better off living and working a few
months in a country where the language is spoken, than to spend years on
courses and examinations. To learn to play an instrument, start playing!
To develop a new skill, start doing it! Being active with something
works better than to merely attend seminars, to read about it, do tests,
etc. Doing it is a better way to learn.
School teaches children to parrot phrases without the understanding that
follows when you are really interested in something and want to learn
more about it. At school, subject matter is artificial, exercises are
fabricated, wrapped in discipline and lacking the incentives, pleasure
and satisfaction of getting something to work in real life.
Integrated Learning sees school as an effort to artificially separate
education from leisure, work, travel, housekeeping and other daily-life
activities. While Integrated Learning encourages children to participate
more fully in society, it does recognise the importance of guidence by
parents, in fact it encourages all family members to take more interest
in each other's lives. Integrated Learning as a lifestyle choice can
impact on parents as much as on their children. It's great to make the
commitment as a family. Integrated learning will touch many aspect of
the lives of each member of the family, and as school disappears out of
focus, the family as a whole will take interest in issues of true
relevance.
http://groups.msn.com/IntegratedLearning
Thought that would be interesting,
Cheers!
Quintessence
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