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EJ610313 PS530759
Title: Engaged Pedagogy: One Alternative to "Indoctrination" into DAP.Author(s):O'Brien, Leigh M.
Source: Childhood Education, v76 n5 p283-88 Annual Theme 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Notes: Annual Theme Issue: "Preparing School Personnel for the 21st Century."
ISSN: 0009-4056
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Opinion papers (120)
Journal Announcement: CIJJAN2001
Argues that
teacher educators must ensure that early childhood teachers learn
to create critical curricula aimed at fostering democratic citizens
rather than implement given appropriate practices into which they
have been indoctrinated. Advocates engaged pedagogy as an approach
to counter the indoctrination approach to teacher education. Describes
the author's journey from Piagetian constructivism to an engaged
pedagogy approach. (KB)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning); *Developmentally
Appropriate Practices; Early Childhood Education; *Educational Philosophy;
Feminism; *Teacher Education
Identifiers: Student Engagement; Twenty First Century
