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This post serves as a general stomping ground for comments and lingering thoughts about the latest Beyond Pedagogy<\/a> text, Inventing Kindergarten<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Though our meeting had a slightly smaller turnout than previous ones, the dialogue was all the more engaging. That being said, Mark was kind enough to offer his notes from the meeting. Below are his unedited, running notes throughout the exchange \u2013 the excessive question mark use is all his! (??????)
\nAnd yes, this blog post’s title is an homage to one of my favorite books<\/a> about one of my favorite places<\/a>.
\nMark’s Notes:<\/p>\n

PAULA’S comments and ideas:
\nteachers undervalue the importance of media design (how the book was designed)\u00a0 EXPOUND – ??????
\nWalt Whitman (leaves of grass… book making – a lost art)
\na little whitewashed… how did these kindergarten ideas affect other cultures…
\nwas it really “creative” “abstract” – tolerating ambiguity
\nreminiscent of scientific behavioralism…
\nembodied literacy – not so cerebral…
\ninfantilizing high school students – thru rules<\/p>\n

OCTAVIO’S comments and ideas:
\nhas to finish his dissertation
\nwere Vygotsky and Froebel contemporaries
\nhow education is compartmentalized….\u00a0 the need for Interdisciplinary approach (connections)
\nexperience is important…
\nplay as a form of inquiry… (theatre as play)
\n???Where do video games fit into this????
\nbasic skills fit into the larger context (LIFE) need to align experience with literacy
\npart of it has to be by design – what if life is the design????<\/p>\n

ANTERO’S comments and ideas:
\nuniversal connectivity… Glass Bead Game (interconnectivity)
\nstudent of everything (LIFE) – Renaissance person…
\nlost in high school is a sense of play…<\/p>\n

???Adult over play??? magic is lost, pedagogy is hidden for the kids ???? How do you balance transparency of pedagogy with sense of magic or wonderment…?????
\nconsumerism destroying the purity…
\nintellectual play<\/p>\n

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