國慶加上教師培訓日，還有星期六日轟轟烈烈的中秋佳節，昊昊玩得失了神，他問其實他可不可以照樣學習，只是在家中自學，不用回學校那麼麻煩。他不怕學習，但不大享受上學。
我跟他說他不能在家學習的原因有二，一是他的母親要上班，誰在家教他?二是政府會拉他的爸媽去坐牢，如果他的父母沒有讓他上學。看來暑假後遺症，仍纏繞著他。
嗯，為什麼我們的學校不能令我們的孩子喜歡上學?我的學生有多少喜歡上我的課?
需要好好反思的課題。
前陣子閱報，提及Home Schooling 的概念，認為學校教育扼殺了孩子的求知慾，教育是該讓孩子做主動，孩子一問為什麼，父母就和他一起找答案，如此的學習，才可以引發孩子的動機，進而學會學習。
我答昊昊上學不是只為了學習書本上的知識，我們還會學習與人相處、群體生活、交友之道......如果他獨留在家，這些都不容易學到的。
如果我阿Q一點，可以說成我的Home Schooling十分成功，我的孩子喜歡我們教他多於學校教他，不過回心一想，如果我不用上學，他又不用上學，我也有把握讓他學得很好，甚至學得更多。
3 comments:
Shan,
The function of 'Schooling' is really a big issue! Maybe the following captions can give you another insight on it -
Specifically, Bowles and Gintis attempted to demonstrate the ways in which schools in the United States were closely involved and interrelated with capitalist structures of production. The schools and their curriculum, in other words, structure education so as to produce "good workers" who will fill various socially stratified occupations, thereby maintaining class-based inequities and benefiting the means of capitalist economic production and profit. Bowles and Gintis write:
"The structure of social relations in education not only inures the student to the discipline of the workplace, but develops the types of personal demeanor, modes of self-presentation, self-image, and social class identifications which are the crucial ingredients of job adequacy. Specifically, the social relationships of education--the relationships between administrators and teachers, teachers and students, and students and students, and students and their work--replicate the hierarchical divisions of labor." (Bowles and Gintis, 1976, p.131)
Well, the idea is not easy to be accepted at the first glance, however, ...
Anyhow, the issue is worth discussing!
Ta-lo
大佬:
我十分認同教育的內容，與社會的需求，息息相關。因此，政府大大打擊填鴨教育，以為社會需要的是創意及開放思想。我不反對社會可能真的有此需要，但內涵方面，我們在此便賠上了。填鴨縱有千般不是，填在肚中，是真真確確有一堆材料呢。學校不斷將孩子分流，上了中學，已有一些孩子被認定為「無藥可救」，因為學的根本是他能力以外的，大家也無能為力，這才是學校的哀歌。
珊
珊,
I shared most of your view points!
填鴨教育 for me is something good.
Actually I don/t buy 'Liberal Studies', especially under the current way of implementation.
此中有真意,欲辯已忘言!
大佬
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