Autagogic
From UpdateNet English
Learning is something we can only do by ourselves, it just happens. But it can also be designed, lead, enabled and hindered. School uses the word pedagogic, which comes from Greek pais, paidos ‘child, boy’ and Greek agein ‘lead’. Child, boy leader. Originally described as a slave who accompanied the children to school and back home.
This meaningful origin has successfully settled in today’s education environment. The teacher doesn’t lead the children outside the house much, they come to him, and he leads them, on virtual trails, along topics to exams. The teacher knows, like a long time ago the slave, what has to be done. He knows the trail and knows which one is the right and which one is the wrong one.
Chris Shute takes a firm stand: ‘In 9 out of 10 schools, on 9 out of 10 days, in 9 out of 10 hours, students are busy applying a small coat of information over the juvenile mind, and soon after taking it off again, only to determine that the coat of information has been applied subject to the rules.’ (Shute 1998)
Learning should encourage our creativity to design personal self learning exercises, but in order to do that the trails have to be set differently. The students have to put their active, self-determined learning in the center. Then autagogic would be more suitable, much more.
Autagogic is made up of the Greek word ‘autos’ (self, self propelled) and ‘agein’ (lead). That expresses that the activity focus is applied to learning. “Autagogic is a term for a didactic teaching-learning arrangement with the goal of a self-efficient competence expansion by students in the school context. Self-efficient learning means that students set their own important goals and then follow their own strategy to realize them. Autagogic describes a self-efficacy didactic.’ (Fuchs 2005)
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