{"id":1275,"date":"2010-03-09T00:35:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T05:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2010-03-09T00:51:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T05:51:15","slug":"education-in-an-evolutionary-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2010\/03\/09\/education-in-an-evolutionary-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Education in an evolutionary perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered Peter O. Gray&#8217;s blog on Psychology Today, titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/freedom-learn\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom to Learn: The roles of play and curiosity as foundations for learning<\/a>. This is an awesome blog and really worth reading. Here are two of his posts that I strongly recommend. The first states (over and over again) the fact that &#8220;School is prison&#8221; and makes a good argument for why that is indeed the case. The next post unpacks that statement somewhat by exploring the idea of compulsory education.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/freedom-learn\/200909\/why-don-t-students-school-well-duhhhh\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWhy Don\u2019t Students Like School?\u201d  Well, Duhhhh\u2026<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/freedom-learn\/200909\/seven-sins-our-system-forced-education\" target=\"_blank\">Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the record, here are a couple of his papers as PDF downloads (I recommend the first, though it may be a bit academic at first glance).<\/p>\n<ol><\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/evolution.binghamton.edu\/evos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/AJP-2009-article_1.pdf\">Play as a Foundation for Hunter-Gatherer Social Existence<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/evolution.binghamton.edu\/evos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Natures-Powerful-Tutors_1.pdf\">Nature\u2019s Powerful Tutors: The Educative Functions of Free Play and Exploration<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol><\/ol>\n<p>And finally here is a video of a presentation he made at the Evolutionary Studies Program at Binghamton University.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"293\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6958337&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"293\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6958337&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/6958337\">Peter Gray: The Human Ancestral Environment for Education, and Its Relevance for Education Today<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2422354\">EvoS<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered Peter O. Gray&#8217;s blog on Psychology Today, titled Freedom to Learn: The roles of play and curiosity as foundations for learning. This is an awesome blog and really worth reading. Here are two of his posts that I strongly recommend. The first states (over and over again) the fact that &#8220;School is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,14,5,25,28,38,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}