Wikipedia<\/a>). Today, three and a half centuries later, we still do not see much interest in understanding the knowledge that pre-exists in a student’s mind. Yet, we now know that children have very active minds and the notion that the inputs from the teacher go directly to some kind of store to be retrieved at some future date, is obviously untrue.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAny new knowledge a student acquires is embedded in a rich world of relationships and pre-existing facts and thoughts, and when new knowledge conflicts with existing knowledge, the new knowledge is rejected. Also, the relevance of knowledge is based on preexisting ideas. Cognitive Psychology talks of two methods to remember something. The first is through rehearsal <\/strong>(repetition). This method is useful when we need to remember something for a short while (short term memory<\/em>), like a phone number that we need to write down. For longer-term retention, we use elaboration<\/strong><\/em>, a way to integrate the new knowledge with existing knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn short meaningful or relevant information is remembered much better and much longer than irrelevant and disconnected facts. If education has to have a long-term impact on a student, we need to pay close attention to what the student already knows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The purpose of education is two-fold, first to provide young people with the skills needed to be effective participants in society and second to bring out the best in them in the same way a good cut and polish brings out the brilliance hidden in a rough uncut diamond. Transformational Education aims at changing the … <\/p>\n
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