Learning paths must engage students’ hearts, minds, and hands to end apathy
Evidence
We will see students move from apathetic unawareness to dawning understanding to full-out activism if we are careful to lay out paths of learning that help them develop the values, skills, and attitudes they need. It is essential that we engage their hearts, minds, and hands. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1910
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Engagement-based teaching may raise test scores better than test-driven coverage — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1913; Sustainability can mean transforming, not adding to, education — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 251; Genuinely engaged teaching exhausts the spirit and demands structural support — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 402 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Genuinely engaged teaching exhausts the spirit and demands structural support
#corroborates(0.75) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 402 - Emotions function as pedagogical signals demanding agenda flexibility
#corroborates(0.75) - Engaged pedagogy grants students authority over their own meaning-making
#expands(0.75) - Acknowledging every student’s presence is the necessary precondition for radical learning
#complicates(0.72) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 25 - Habermas saw the student path as a tightrope between apathy and revolutionary oversimplification
#complicates(0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2615 - Engaged pedagogy uniquely requires teacher self-actualization before student empowerment
#corroborates(0.70) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 42