Alternative schools 2300-S2-MEA-SA
The tutorial includes a directed and didactically supervised independent work of the student related to searching for and deepening knowledge about alternative education institutions. As a result of their own research, students will become familiar with selected alternative schools, learning about
the set goals, formulated assumptions, the way of organizing the institutions together with the method of recruiting teachers and students and the final assessment of the achieved results. Seminar-style classes focus on the following groups of issues:
I. What are we looking for in alternative education?
II. The creator of an alternative school as a pedagogue and a keen observer of social expectations.
III. The teacher in an alternative model of education.
IV. The role of alternative schools in educational policy.
V. Alternative schools and mass education.
VI. Selected alternative schools - goals and effects. (e.g.: M.Montessori, R.Steiner, C.Freinet, H.Parkhurst, J-O. Decroly, A.S.Neill, W.H. Kilpatrick, P.Petersen, M.Fourestier, K.Hahn, H.Lietz, T.Łopuszański).
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Type of course
Learning outcomes
Knowledge:
- Describes alternative education systems (K2_W01)
- Presents characteristic features of selected alternative schools. (K2_W06)
- Explains the conditions of the educational process. (K2_W02)
- Lists the advantages and disadvantages of selected teaching methods. (K2_W12)
Skills:
- Operationalizes educational objectives. (K2_U02)
- Adapts the choice of teaching process to the established goals and content of education. (K2_U02)
- Selects teaching methods, forms, and resources consistent with the teaching objectives of selected alternative education systems. (K2_U02)
Social competences:
- Critically analyzes the educational process in the area of alternative education. (K2_K01)
- Evaluates the effectiveness of alternative education principles in solving teaching and learning problems in order to improve one's own teaching skills. (K2_K02)
Assessment criteria
Attendance and activity during classes. Preparation and presentation of selected alternative schools and conducting a discussion on this topic with seminar participants. Attendance at a minimum of 5 seminars is mandatory (attendance at only four or fewer seminars results in the need to repeat the subject).
Failure to prepare for classes is treated as absence.
The credit is given by fulfilling the following requirements:
1. Fulfilling the attendance requirement.
2. Preparing materials and short presentations on selected alternative schools for individual seminars. Conducting a discussion on the issues raised in the presentation.
The evaluation includes the choice of topic, substantive value, scope of presentation and the manner of conducting the discussion.