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COVID-19 and the opportunity to design a more mindful approach to learning

The industry of modern schooling leads to surface learning of exaggeratedly voluminous curricula and excessively high-stakes assessments that instrumentalize the pursuit of knowledge. In order to return to a more mindful, authentic, and humanly paced approach, disruption from the present model is ne...

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Autor principal: Hughes, Conrad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7387802/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32836430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11125-020-09492-z
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description The industry of modern schooling leads to surface learning of exaggeratedly voluminous curricula and excessively high-stakes assessments that instrumentalize the pursuit of knowledge. In order to return to a more mindful, authentic, and humanly paced approach, disruption from the present model is needed. Paradoxically, the COVID-19 pandemic might be the catalyst that will bring this about.
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spelling pubmed-73878022020-07-29 COVID-19 and the opportunity to design a more mindful approach to learning Hughes, Conrad Prospects (Paris) Viewpoints/ Controversies The industry of modern schooling leads to surface learning of exaggeratedly voluminous curricula and excessively high-stakes assessments that instrumentalize the pursuit of knowledge. In order to return to a more mindful, authentic, and humanly paced approach, disruption from the present model is needed. Paradoxically, the COVID-19 pandemic might be the catalyst that will bring this about. Springer Netherlands 2020-07-29 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7387802/ /pubmed/32836430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11125-020-09492-z Text en © UNESCO IBE 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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title_short COVID-19 and the opportunity to design a more mindful approach to learning
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7387802/
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