Empirical Research
Rethinking Education from First Principles
By Carolyn Osborne
Volume 7 - Issue 1
Feb 19, 2009 - 10:35:20 AM

Our current educational practices often are not congruent with what we know about teachers and learners. We have created procedures that look like learning and we assess these procedures in such a way that we think learning has happened, but there is a chance that it has not. This article explores some of what we know about human beings that seems to be left out in how we conceptualize education and then suggests some implications of these ideas.