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EDUCATION |
TRADITIONAL
EDUCATION |
- Emphasis on cognitive structures and social development.
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- Emphasis on rote knowledge and social development.
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- Environment and method encourage internal self-discipline.
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- Teacher acts as primary enforcer of external discipline.
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- Instruction, both individual and group, adapts to each student's
learning style.
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- Instruction, both individual and group, conforms to the adult's
teaching style.
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- Teacher has unobtrusive role in classroom activity; child is an
active participant in learning.
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- Teacher has dominant, active role in classroom activity; child is
a passive participant in learning.
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- Children are encouraged to each, collaborate, and help each other.
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- Most teaching is done by teacher and collaboration is discouraged.
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- Child sets own learning pace to internalize information.
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- Instruction pace usually set by group "norm" or
teacher.
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- Child spots own errors through feedback from learning materials.
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- If work is corrected, errors usually are pointed out by the
teacher.
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- Multi-sensory materials for physical exploration.
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- Fewer materials for sensory development and concrete manipulation.
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