In our school, Aga Khan Academy Mombasa, we try and incorporate the strand “Pluralism” into our curriculum. For kids in the primary years program, the concept can be nebulous and hard to grasp.For adults, it is a concept that has scope for many different interpretations (which is a message quite explicitly stated in the video).Watching this clip helped me appreciate that somebody’s opinion, be it your boss’s, or the president’s, or the CEO’s does not have to be the ultimate truth. It never can be. We all work together as a collective body and even the idea of a young child can be the link that ties ideas together.Powerful! Teachers need to expose their students to the world; they need to listen and glean ideas from the the world wide web, from video clips, books, and their students. Children can come up with such amazing ideas or ways of looking at things.One mistake we teachers must try and not make anymore (as we are all supposed to learn from them, right?) is to be careful not to take away the creativity and imagination that children are born with. Avoid standing in front of the classroom and being didactic; avoid setting rules all by yourself; avoid humiliating kids in front of their peers; take into account all opinions, however trivial; take into account their different cultural backgrounds, take into account that even though they are small, they have rights and a mind of their own…the list goes on!
http://naini-learningneverstops.blogspot.ca/2011/02/complex-adaptive-systems.html
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