Mae Jemison is an astronaut, a doctor, an art collector, a dancer ... Telling stories from her own education and from her time in space, she calls on educators to teach both the arts and sciences, both intuition and logic, as one -- to create bold thinkers.
Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together | Video on TED.com
I watched with glee, while your kings and queens, fought for ten decades for the gods they made.
Originally Posted by Andrew49
In other words - A Steiner/Waldorf school!
Waldorf education - Wikipedia[COLOR=black][COLOR=black]Waldorf education (also known as Steiner or Steiner-Waldorf education) is a pedagogy based upon the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy. Learning is interdisciplinary, integrating practical, artistic, and conceptual elements. The Waldorf approach emphasizes the role of the imagination, developing thinking that includes a creative as well as an analytic component.[/COLOR]
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Interesting idea, but what would it mean in practice? I get the feeling that it's not just a cultural thing, it's a result of the fact that we learn the best when we pursue what we are personally interested in (and our schools try to give us a choice of path to take advantage of that). For me, science was extremely interesting, it was the one subject I actively pursued. Art (including creative writing etc.) where just things I had to do that I dropped as soon as I could. They may use the same skills, they may be the same thing as she describes, but they're certainly distinct in terms of what sparks interest in children. Even within science or art, kids find particular fields/aspects more interesting than others and usually drop some as they reach the leaving cert/University.
How do you integrate the teaching of art and science in a way that doesn't diminish the value of one or the other from the perspective of the child?
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