What makes the Homo sapiens sapiens a sucesseful interactive teacher? Human teachers clearly understood that their learners had a different perspective on the situation than they did, and they had some ideas about specifically "what that... more
What makes the Homo sapiens sapiens a sucesseful interactive teacher? Human teachers clearly understood that their learners had a different perspective on the situation than they did, and they had some ideas about specifically "what that perspective was" and "how it might be changed". Different conceptions of learners minds held by teachers lead to different kinds of pedagogical practice. This new research agenda explores learners´ own framewoks to understand better how they come to the views that finally prove most useful to them. From this socio-cognitive perspective, teaching and learning are one special form of sharing or coming to share beliefs, goals, and intentions. So, different approaches to learning and different forms of instruction-from imitation, to instruction, to discovery, to collaboration-reflect differing beliefs and assumptions about the learner-from actor, to knower, to private experiencer, to collaborative thinker. The hominid niche must be characterized in its fundamentals not only by being "cognitive", where the "social" operates at a uniquely high level, but also "deeply social", where the "social" operates at a uniquely, cognitively, interdependent level. We are sucessful interactive teachers and learners because we have a "deep social mind".
