During
the recent secondary level Curriculum revisions
in God’s Own Country, some
Teacher Educators were invited to participate
in a discussion on finalizing the
Secondary Curriculum transaction.
One
of the representatives of the body
of ‘scholars’ dispatched by the agency
assigned the task of Secondary Curriculum revision, during discussions, cut
short a participant’s attempt at discussing
‘Pedagogic Analysis’. The gentleman opined that ‘Pedagogic Analysis’
has no place in the Constructivist Curriculum!
A
Clinical Psychologist-cum-Teacher Educator present during the deliberations immediately gave a justification which was an
eye opener to all present.
“
Now… if you give a short story of the
famous writer Basheer to a dramatist for
staging, he would start analyzing it in terms of cast, action, lighting and stage setting.
If your give the same story to Adoor
Gopalakrishnan the noted film maker, he will analyze it in terms of shots,
scenes, camera angels etc.
Similarly
if you give a short story to a teacher he will analyse it in terms of moral values, social criticism, class
room learning experiences, and identify ways of evaluating teaching of the
short story.”
The
‘representative’s ego was severely punctured! Needless to say that the Clinical
Psychologist-cum-Teacher Educator was never again invited for discussions on the Curriculum in God’s Own
Country! Can Pedagogic Analysis be anathema?
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