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The Show / Re: Link to Edgington Post?
« on: January 28, 2013, 10:09:51 AM »
I know this original post is old, but it came up second in my searches so I think this might help other people. My android phone's browser is also unable to directly follow that pipes.yahoo.com link to The Edgington Post (the one Ian refers to on the left-hand side of the freetalklive.com home page). Maybe it's a browser setting...I don't know. Either way, copying the link and pasting it directly in the feed search of my podcast manager worked for me when clicking didn't.
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=fcc916dc49529eec5c088aab3e3f247d&_render=rss
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=fcc916dc49529eec5c088aab3e3f247d&_render=rss
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General / Re: teaching preschoolers about liberty--looking for ideas
« on: March 19, 2007, 12:21:38 AM »
I'm the guy who made the original post about teaching libertarian ideals to preschoolers. Thanks for all the replies. I guess I should have included that it's a private school funded by a presbyterian church. I think Caveman, Markuzick, and Wayne understood, but maybe I should explain a little more...I'm not intending to take away from time that could be used to teach music in order to teach about liberty. I wouldn't begin a music class talking about what's wrong with the government or pass out flyers for them to take home to their parents. I think what I was really looking for are liberty-based classroom management suggestions--a way to introduce them to liberty through experience in my classroom.
It's inevitable that I will have to structure the class in some way. What happens when one kid is distracting the rest of the class from learning a new song? What if there are 6 kids who want green shakers and I only have 5...sorry you have to take what you get? I think it's the way a teacher handles these little things that stick with a child as he/she is developing. These types of issues would come up whether I were teaching music, science, or whatever, so I don't think I'm out of line by wanting to get suggestions about how to handle them in a liberty-minded way. I can easily think of ways to structure the classes in socialist or authoritarian ways. After all, that's the example I got growing up in government schools, and I hated my kindergarden teacher, Mrs. McDonald. I distinctly remember the time she took my book away from me during show-and-tell. She let someone else hold my book in front of the class during the story because I wasn't holding it 'right' and some whiners complained loudly enough that they couldn't see the pictures. Democracy in action?
It's inevitable that I will have to structure the class in some way. What happens when one kid is distracting the rest of the class from learning a new song? What if there are 6 kids who want green shakers and I only have 5...sorry you have to take what you get? I think it's the way a teacher handles these little things that stick with a child as he/she is developing. These types of issues would come up whether I were teaching music, science, or whatever, so I don't think I'm out of line by wanting to get suggestions about how to handle them in a liberty-minded way. I can easily think of ways to structure the classes in socialist or authoritarian ways. After all, that's the example I got growing up in government schools, and I hated my kindergarden teacher, Mrs. McDonald. I distinctly remember the time she took my book away from me during show-and-tell. She let someone else hold my book in front of the class during the story because I wasn't holding it 'right' and some whiners complained loudly enough that they couldn't see the pictures. Democracy in action?
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General / teaching preschoolers about liberty--looking for ideas
« on: March 17, 2007, 11:52:10 PM »
I am a preschool music teacher by day, teaching children up to 5 years old, and I've been thinking lately that this might be a unique opportunity for activism—I can structure the classroom in such a way as to pass my libertarian ideals on to them before they go on to government schools.
Do you have any suggestions that might help me do that? How would you create and manage a liberty-based classroom of young children? What would you do with children who are talking when the rest of the students are listening to music? Do you think it would it be right to assume that each student has voluntarily entered into my class for the purpose of making music?
I only see each class for 15 minutes twice a week, but I still feel like I can make a difference in this small amount of time and teach them more than just music.
Any ideas/thoughts?
~Brandon
Do you have any suggestions that might help me do that? How would you create and manage a liberty-based classroom of young children? What would you do with children who are talking when the rest of the students are listening to music? Do you think it would it be right to assume that each student has voluntarily entered into my class for the purpose of making music?
I only see each class for 15 minutes twice a week, but I still feel like I can make a difference in this small amount of time and teach them more than just music.
Any ideas/thoughts?
~Brandon
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