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This 3 page paper discusses Sylvia Ashton-Warner's book "Teacher" and the approach she took to teacher her Maori students. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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"idealistic education." Discussion While the primary source for this paper is Ashton-Warners book Teacher, its necessary to define "idealistic education" so we know what were comparing her to. Its been
surprisingly difficult to answer that simple question, but one source says "[T]he concept of self lies at the center of ... idealistic education. Self is the prime reality of individual
experience and, hence, education becomes primarily concerned with self-realization" (Ardalan, 2003). This means that the goal of idealistic education is to put the child at the center of the learning
experience so that he or she can work to their highest potential. This appears to be the Montessori model; or the type of education found at what are called "charter
schools." The educational model for decades, if not centuries, has been teacher-centered. The children sit, quiet and attentive, while the teacher gives lectures or conducts demonstrations. Its not an interactive
process at all; rather, the students become sponges, soaking up enough information to pass the next test. Such a system produces children who are good at rote memorization and taking
tests its less clear that theyve learned anything. Idealistic education, on the other hand, is centered on the students. They are often allowed to study what they like and what
interests them the most, on the not unrealistic expectation that they might pursue a career later in the same field that interests them now. Its also true that childrens interests
change very quickly, and they want to be a police officer one day, a firefighter the next, an astronaut the next and so on. If they are locked into the
traditional school curriculum, they will be forced to take subjects in which they have no interest, and that cannot possibly keep up with their changing interests. If they can study
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