Ignorant school master
At one stage when I was doing more academic work, my reading list consisted of those writers, who write about teaching, research, and environment, however, learning was naturally the underlying factor in all their writings. Education and educators, teaching and learning. At the suggestion of one of my supervisors, I had read Ranciere, and his Ignorant School Master. It was a fascinating account of a French teacher who didn't know the language of his Flemish speaking students, while he was in exile in Netherlands and these students didn't know French, but he ended up teaching them a French classic! How? What worked was students' motivation to learn, and what was proven to be superfluous was the teacher who explicates or transmits knowledge. How can this be applied in my work today, while I'm teaching English, I've been thinking. How can I reduce and even eliminate explication, explaining again and again? I'm ignorant as I don't know much about my stude...