Pedagogical Approaches Video 10

Takeaways

• 🧠 The importance of integrating the head, heart, and hands in education for a holistic development of human personality and contributing to a society with peace, justice, and freedom.
• 📚 The concept of 'Walk The Talk' education, emphasizing the need for educators to embody the values they teach, including being, doing, and then telling.
• 💡 The role of personal experiences in linking and influencing a learner's knowledge, skills, and attitudes, as a key to transformative learning.
• 🌧️ A practical example of creating a rainwater harvesting system to demonstrate the application of the head (cognition), heart (affective), and hands (action).
• 💭 The cognitive process involves research and understanding of concepts, such as water conservation and the cost of installing a rainwater harvesting system.
• ❤️ The affective domain, where feelings and empathy play a role in motivating action, such as the desire to alleviate water scarcity and contribute to society.
• 👐 The action phase, where the hands take over, leading to the actual implementation of the rainwater harvesting system and sharing the experience with peers.
• 🌟 The transformative learning theory by Sterling, which includes three levels of learning: first-order change (cognition and efficiency), second-order change (reformative), and third-order change (transformative).
• 🔑 The three key strategies educators can use to bring about transformative change in themselves and their learners: living by example, fostering a positive classroom culture, and using effective teaching strategies.
• 🌱 The significance of educators going beyond being mere transmitters of knowledge, embracing joy and freedom in learning, and instilling a love for learning that lasts a lifetime.
• 🎯 The power of goal setting in transformative education, driving personal growth, self-actualization, and the cultivation of resilience, empathy, and self-efficacy in students.