Slow education explained

Slow education is based upon Socratic, adaptive and non-standards based approaches to teaching. Slow education is in part a reaction to the overly compacted course content requirements teachers are experiencing from nationalized curricula worldwide, which many educators find students cannot cover in a single year with sufficient depth.^[1] Slow education is also a reaction to the proliferation of standardized testing, favoring instead qualitative measures of student and teacher success.^[2] Slow education is frequently a feature in free, democratic and home schools.^[3] However, it can be a significant element in any classroom, including those in college preparatory and rigorous environments. The term "slow education" was derived from the distinction between slow food and fast food or junk food, and is an effort to associate quality, culture, sustainability, and personalization with quality schooling.^{[4] [5] [6]}

See also

• Waldorf education

External links

• Web site: Slow Schools and Slow Education - connecting children to life. Slow Movement. 2014.
• Web site: Learning About the Slow Education Movement. Etale. 31 August 2013.
• News: We need to take education slowly . Tom. Hodgkinson. Tom Hodgkinson . . 16 December 2012.
• Web site: The Women's Room . Meet the Parents and Slow Education . 15 January 2014.
• Grauer. Stuart. Succotash and Standardized Teaching. 29 April 2018. Community Works Journal.
• Free painting method "Le Geste de peindre" in France : http://www.latelierdecharenton.com/latelier-slow-education-quoi-pourquoi-quand/

Notes and References

1. News: Why pushy parents fail to make the grade in education: Tiger Mums hold children back, says the Eton master behind a 'slow' approach to learning. Peter. Stanford. 25 October 2012. The Daily Telegraph. London. 1 April 2014.
2. News: Find the time for slow education. Times Educational Supplement. 2 November 2012. Irena. Barker. 1 April 2014.
3. Book: Miller, John P.. Educating for Wisdom and Compassion: Creating Conditions for Timeless Learning. 108. Corwin. Thousand Oaks. 2005. 9781412917049.
4. It's Time to Start the Slow School Movement. Maurice. Holt. Phi Delta Kappan. December 2002. 84. 4. 264–271. 10.1177/003172170208400404. 143892869. 1 April 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150122061602/http://www.bluegum.act.edu.au/links/Maurice_Holt_Slow_Schools.pdf. 22 January 2015.
5. Book: de Zilwa, Deanna. Australian University Leaders: Agents of the McUniversity, Entrepreneurial Transformers, or Bureaucrats?. 162. Global Issues in Higher Education. Pamela B.. Richard. 2007. Nova Science. New York. 978-1-60021-802-6.
6. Slow Higher Education. Hendrik. van der Sluis. New Vistas. April 2020. 6. 1. 4–9. 10.36828/newvistas.105. free.