Illiterate adults can be taught science through Morse Code and symmetric LED circuits

Evidence

The idea, therefore, was to create some hands-on work, which could be taken home and seen by the student’s family as something different from an ordinary child’s notebook. The primary objective for these science lessons was to enable students to transmit short messages using Morse Code, developing their perception of symmetry, as the code for some letters (such as A, D, and F) has a different meaning when inverted (see figure below). — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1312

Categorization

• SEED: Angle for an essay: pedagogies for adult illiterate learners that deliberately avoid anything resembling a child’s exercise book — status-relevant ‘ser mais’ work that the learner can take home as an adult artifact.
• XREF: connects to: Adaptive pedagogy rooted in students’ actual needs characterizes Freirean practice — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1316