I am happy to read this article today in LinkedIn post.
Professor
Mitra, is a Physicist and teaches Educational Technology at Newcastle
University.
Change
in system only brings
entire scenario of education system.
Excerpt
from the article:
“I
do not know, I don’t know if there’s a teacher inside us but there’s a learner
inside us and that learner, anyway learns all the time. It’s just that he
decides what he wants to learn, what is important and what is not important. So
if we don’t turn the learner on properly then (it) they doesn’t learn. And I
think what some of my Workshops show is that the learner can get that
done by curiosity and by mystery not so much by threat. You can’t say to a
learner: now you must learn, he can’t control it if the little learner inside
says: “sorry”, then that’s it.”
Well
as I’ve said we need some changes in teachers’ training programmes pretty
several changes… but most importantly we need a change in the examination
system, otherwise my work would appear to be against teachers. It is not
against teachers, it is against the kind of teaching the teachers have to do,
because of the examination system.”
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