Julie Bernson, director of education at the Addison Gallery, looking at the students’ photographs from their homes.
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• “I notice that a wooden fence broke and someone chopped a tree, and the chopped tree is in back of the wooden fence, and in back of the chopped tree there is a pile of trees, and in front of the wooden fence there is a broken plank, and maybe he only was focusing on the chopped tree and then two trees came out good and the ones that were in the back came our blurry, and the sun was up so the sun hit a little bit of the trunk, and the other part of the trunk has shadow…”
This whole discussion raised for me a large question. Culture determines how children think and act, but culture is also redefined by children’s individual and independent thought and action. As Ricoeur puts it in his book Time and Narrative, tradition is always made up of the interaction between culture and individuality. I suspect we might best evaluate schools by the extent to which they foster children’s originality in regard to culture.
“What then pedagogy? I would simply argue that it is the teacher’s privilege and responsibility to ally herself, himself, to the child’s search for meaning. Such an alliance places the act of interpretation at the center of teaching and learning.”
PRESENTATION OF HOME + CITY PROJECT TO TEACHERS AT BREAD LOAF SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, MIDDLEBURY, VT 7/06
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