Showing posts with label J.R.R.Tolkien. Show all posts
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Sunday 21 March 2021

The Different Educational Approaches and the Philosophy of Freedom

      Many people across the globe have fallen in love with Harry Potter over the years. But most people, however, have not thought how the books that started this global phenomenon have impacted education. So, when reading about the Hogwarts school I observed the four different teaching philosophies displayed by J.K. Rowling which the education authority wants to sort into the varied classroom settings here in Russia, and this is not magic — it is logic in the first place.

  1. Essentialism is teaching accumulated knowledge for the great and bold using core courses like maths, science and FL or fear learning, i.e., learn to fear the unified state exams (USE) which turn out to be a nightmare for students and staff alike and most hated by the parents.
  2. Promoting reasoning for caring and kind: using paper and scissors to teach opposites to the Western democracies, especially to America.
  3. Progressivism philosophy focuses on curiosity and real-world experience for the wise and clever that help them turn a deaf ear/blind eye to the fact that the senior party muggles deposit millions of stolen dollars outside school classes.
  4. And finally, parennialism is a philosophy that does not include flexibility in the curriculum, rather is it quite rigorous in the standards promoting empathy for Voldemort, living in the power-hungry and sneaky Slythering House, Gelendzhik, Russia. 
     Each approach have produced outstanding witches and wizards. But, when subjected to this environment, kids are not able to enjoy their time spent in these classrooms since the last thing on the teacher’s mind is the philosophy of freedom… We must admit the educational authority is going to fail abysmally! That said, unlike professor Dumbledore, I have excluded all those above-mentioned weird Hogwarts enchantments from my English lessons. To put it simply, I am a die-hard Tolkien fan of Elvish singing & dancing 💚😃💚.



           


        All things considered, do you want to know where you stand? Take this quiz; sort of sorting hat thing (sorry for the pun). ⏩ What Hogwarts House Do I Belong In?
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