Sunday, February 8, 2009

Breadth vs. Depth: A Premature Polarity by E. D. Hirsch, Jr

Hirsch says that, The ability to learn something new will depend on whether or not the knowledge that one many already have. As educators a child's home environment will greatly affect how a a child learns and strives to learn. Their socio-economic status will play a part in their background knowledge and their ability to learn. With lack of resources will come they lack of back ground knowledge they will come to us with. Exposing them to what we can is a tough job because there never seems to be enough hours in a day.

I know recently my school took a survey...I found out about half of my class has a computer. That's 13 out 23 students. So socio-economic status affects them a lot.

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