Tagore at Santiniketan: learning under an open sky
Rabindranath Tagore took the class outside and saw that a child learns with her whole body. What he got right, and what his own schools set apart.
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Affordances: what a classroom invites a child to do
Nobody told the boy to walk along the ledge. The ledge did. James Gibson’s idea of affordances suggests that every classroom is already a lesson, whether we plan one or not.