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%PARTICIPATE STUDENT CONSTRUCTION MEANING KNOWLEDGE 950530

     For knowledge to be acquired and kept in a meaningful
way a student must participate in the construction  within
self of the meaningful presence of the knowledge.

     It is  not  helpful  to  education  for  teachers  or
professors to view humans as containers of knowledge.

     In   education  knowledge  is  not  like  the  linear
(parallel or serial)  streams of bits of information which
flow from one  computer into another computer or medium of
storage of such linear information streams.

     The  word  "education"  comes from the  word  "educe"
under  the conviction that there is a sense in which  each
student   already  "knows"   much---but  needs   help   in
recognizing and structuring that which is already known---
so that  the knowledge will be meaningful conceived within
the  being of  the  student,   and  so  be  remembered and
used  in  a meaningful   way   in   future  occasions   of
perceived relevance.

     Meaningful knowledge cannot be put into a student  by
a superior previous  human  or  inhuman  container  of the
knowledge.    Knowledge  is not information which  can  be
stored in  various  places;  e.g.,  professors, lecturers,
writers, books,  readers and students.   Thus education is
not  something  which  can  be done to  a  student  by  an
educator.

     Education is a process in which people participate as
they construct and re-construct various forms of knowledge
and knowing  through open and honest dialogue  about their
experiences   and   reflections   upon   their  remembered
experiences and articulations thereof.

     Education does not meaningfully take place if:

     (1)  Open and honest dialogue is absent.

     (2)  People  are  not true to self and  others  about
their own experiences.

     (3)  The remembrance of past experiences is blocked.

     (4)  Students are not able and enabled to participate
in the  construction  and re-construction of knowledge  in
ways which are meaningful to them.

     (5)  The  personal  relationships  between  students,
teachers, professors, and administrators are characterized
by dishonesty,   alienation,   distrust,  excommunication,
indifference, disrespect, abuse, manipulations, etc.

     (6)  The   possible   relevance   of   re-constructed
knowledge to  the  future life of the students is ignored,
denied or regarded as of little importance.

     (7)  A significant fraction of the participants in an
educational context are unaware of these pre-requisites to
meaningful  education,  or deny their importance  in   any
way. Such  lack  of  awareness  and/or  denials  undermine
the possibilities  of  students participating meaningfully
in  the  construction  and re-construction  of   knowledge
for future prudent use.

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