Welcome to your future site! Values « Brisbane Independent School. What Your Body Already Knows. Reward and Reinforcement Anyone who’s been within 50 yards of a clinical psychologist has heard the terms reward and reinforcement .
And it’s fairly common knowledge that the neurotransmitter which supports the experience of reward is dopamine . But what’s the subjective human experience of dopamine? What does dopamine feel like? Here’s a remarkable summary of an emerging understanding of dopamine as not only the neurotransmitter of reward, but also of motivation . Notice we aren’t inquiring here into what motivates your siblings, or the people in your zip code. If everyone around you seems motivated by a wind-in-their-hair, living-on-the-edge adventurous kind of state, but you thrive on predictable comfortable routines, then I could probably offer some general advice on how to structure your weekends and free time. I cannot tell you whether getting married at age 21, or a weekend of white water rafting, or an accelerated MBA program is the right use of your time and energy. Association for Experiential Education: A community of progressive educators and practitioners. - What is Experiential Education?
What is Experiential Education?
Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will understand. ~Chinese Proverb Defining the work we do, the values we hold and the principles that guide us is part of the experience of being a life-long learner and an active member of the Association for Experiential Education. Experiential education is a philosophy that informs many methodologies in which educators purposefully engage with learners in direct experience and focused reflection in order to increase knowledge, develop skills, clarify values, and develop people's capacity to contribute to their communities. Am I an Experiential Educator? Experiential education is often utilized in many other disciplines: Non-formal education Place-based education Project-based education Hands-on Global education Environmental education Student-centered education Informal education Active learning Service learning Cooperative learning Expeditionary learning.
Is Real Educational Reform Possible? If So, How? From the dawn of institutionalized schooling until now there have always been reformers, who want to modify the way schooling is done. For the most part, such reformers can be scaled along what might be called a liberal-conservative, or progressive-traditionalist, continuum. At one end are those who think that children learn best when they are happy, have choices, study material that is directly meaningful to them, and, in general, are permitted some control over what and how they learn.
At the other end are those who think that children learn best when they are firmly directed and guided, by authoritative teachers who know better than children what to learn and how to learn it. Over time there has been regular back-and-forth movement of the educational pendulum along this continuum. But the pendulum never moves very far. The pendulum never moves very far before it is pushed back in the other direction, because neither type of reform works. What do I mean by real educational reform? 75 questions to ask yourself. An old proverb says, “He that cannot ask cannot live.”
If you want answers you have to ask questions. These are 75 questions you should ask yourself and try to answer. You can ask yourself these questions right now and over the course of your life. 1. Why not me? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. Start your project. Alternative Education Resource Organization. Turning Passion Into Achievement.