Tom Liam Lynch :: New Literacies, New Literatures » Harvard Education http://tomliamlynch.org On literacy and technology and education Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:20:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Department Comes to Elementary Schools http://tomliamlynch.org/2009/11/25/the-department-comes-to-elementary-schools/ http://tomliamlynch.org/2009/11/25/the-department-comes-to-elementary-schools/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:24:05 +0000 tomliamlynch http://tomliamlynch.org/2009/11/25/the-department-comes-to-elementary-schools/
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    • ]]>     In this piece from Harvard Education, school leaders grapple with bringing the system of departmentalization to elementary schools. (Gerald Gaff writes extensively about departmentalization’s role in secondary and college.) Opponents say that learning is more than just conveying content to students; it’s social, emotional, and communal.  In these testing times, however, even our youngest learners might find school to be quite different than their parents.

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