Thanks, Anneke, for some excellent reading--quality and quantity very impressive. Keep up the good thinking! I'd be interested in what you see as some of the positions other students occupy in between the two extremes. I've never read enough of John Dewey to be sure, but I think he argued 100 years ago that school and life must be interconnected. Obviously, his message did not carry the day, and we continue to have curricula that focus on the facts and ideas that students must learn with little or not attention to the connections between the ideas and everyday life. The student perspectives that you describe are ones that they have been taught--by their former teachers. Quite unintentionally of course, by teachers who weren't making the efforts you describe to at least create problems that the students could at least have a chance of connecting to everyday life.
THANKS for some great reading, keep up the good thinking!
Tom
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