Postmodernism in Primary School (1 Viewer)

[PrincessSJ]

Im studying primary teaching and im looking at courses for next year and one of them was Postmodernism in the Primary Curriculum

Wouldn't you think that Postmodernism is a little bit above the thinking of primary school kids?? maybe you could really simplify it, perhaps to the point of OVER simplifing it??

thoughts?

 

[johnson]

wow, that is definitely a big and confusing concept to be teaching to primary school kids.

to understand postmodernism, they would need to understand modernism first, anyway. hm, we never learnt anything as complex as this in primary. maybe times are a' changin'

 

[Jase]

thats true, the times are changing.

this world is so full of 'postmodernism' that we could be beyond the era already. (which i think we are)

of course i dont really think its out of the ordinary that these kinda things would be taught, like think of the integration of computers and internet systems into schools in the past 10 years.
the world keeps evolving because the young learn faster and better than the previous generations have.
although i think that has a downside because people will tend to learn only the things that others have already discovered, and forget how to be truly 'intelligent'.
thats the end of my meaningless rant.

and best of luck with teaching postmodernism to primary kids. ^^

 

[soso]

I think we tend to underestimate the young. They learn faster than we do.

You learn the most between 0-5 like a language etc. after this you slow in learning.

Depends how it is pitched and the language used. You could teach it as the challenge to those who are happy, sad and go to church and those who look to science and thinking for answers.

A lot depends on the teacher