Mind Lab Wk One

Tuesday 21st March

Four Main Platforms
  • Portal - weekly videos
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  • Signing in via Unitec eLearn
  • After 2 hours you will be automatically logged out
  • Google + Community
  • Unitec Library
  • Your reflective blog


Collaborative Task
Yin - What is the purpose of Education

Ontology - what we know to be based on facts that are believed to be fact
Epistemology - what we know and how we pass it on - study of knowledge true belief and justifies
  • True knowledge is primarily founded on input from our senses
  • Rationalism emphasizes reason other than experience as the primary basis for justifying beliefs and claims
  • Formal epistomology -  the study of questions such as what is knowledge
  • Genetic epistemology is used to study the cognitive development among children and how children understand and learn and acquire new knowledge.
  • Social epistomology - social context for creating new knowledge
Axiology - what we value, what we believe to be right or wrong
Purpose of Education
  • Gurt Biesta Domains  Qualification Gaining knowledge skills needed to go on and do something. Socialisation - Becoming part of society culture and tradition and Subjectification - becoming more autonomous and independent in thinking and acting

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