Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)Lisa Delpit

Mortimer Adler (1902- 2001)

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Scott ReffelBen Rude

Nathan SchmidtJack Seltenright

Lev Vygotsky (1896-1943)

• Raised during the Russian Revolution• Education Philosophies:– Zone of Proximal Development– Scaffolding– Three stages of language development

• Impacts on education:– Guided teacher/student participation– Peer interactions

Lev Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development

• task level: too easyresult: boredomscaffolding: none

• task level: appropriateresult: learningscaffolding: some

• task level: too difficultresult: frustrationscaffolding: much

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx84h-i3w8U

Lisa Delpit

• Books by Lisa Delpit:

– Other's People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom (1995) – The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other

People's Children

– The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African American Children (1998)

– The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom (2002)

Lisa Delpit

• Contributions to Education:–Miscommunication in the classroom.

–Usage of non-standard English in classrooms.

– Ten Factors Essential to Success in Urban Classrooms

Mortimer Adler (1902- 2001)• He was an American philosopher, educator, and author.• He worked for Columbia University, the University of Chicago,

Encyclopedia Britannica, and Adler's own Institute for Philosophical Research.

• He wrote over 50 books ranging from Britannica's Great Books of the Western World, The Great Ideas Program, Gateway to the Great Books, The Annals of America, and Encyclopedia Britannica

• No one truly gets educated in school. “I now think I am educated, I have forgotten most of the things I have learned in school.”

• The biggest thing that students acquire in schools is the ability to learn. Other skills areWriting, reading, good speech, and good behavior

• Schools are not at their best

Mortimer Adler (Ideas On Education)

• All students should receive a Classics based education

• The Great Books program where the Socratic method is used is an example of a model he developed, and many variations came off of this as well.

• Adler wanted students to be critical thinkers.• Believed learning was a life long process• Paideia Proposal