Schooling and the power of perception - kappanonline.org
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Educators and activists who are reading this, please hear me. We have tremendous power to influence and impact young minds, adults who are seeking career development, and first-generation students seeking to uplift their families and communities out of poverty. I suggest, as educators, we turn the negative self-fulling prophecy on its head in favor of the Pygmalion effect, a term that refers to the phenomenon in which the greater the expectations placed upon children, students, or employees, the more they achieve.So, in limited words, teachers can be emancipators or captors — what power to have unchecked! How we view students could have either a highly uplifting or deeply damaging effect on a child’s success in the classroom and beyond. School districts develop their own cultures, and we need to make sure that these cultures focus on understanding and encouraging students. Positive expectations influence students’ performance positively, and negative expectations influence students’ performance negatively. How we see students will have an impact on their success. So it starts with us.”
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Brownlee, Lewis Andrea (2022): Schooling and the power of perception - kappanonline.org
https://kappanonline.org/schooling-power-of-perception-brownlee/
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Dette blogindlæg supplerer afsnittet ”Fjerde uddybning: kampen om forståelse af reformer”
i mit kapitel Hedegaard, E. (2017): "Uddannelsespolitik og globalisering - uddannelsesreformer i en usikker tidsalder"
i bogen P. Ø Andersen & Tomas Ellegaard : "Klassisk og moderne pædagogisk teori". København: Hans Reitzels Forlag.
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