Teaching Knowledge, Skills and Cultural Literacy:
Can our schools explicitly teach pupils skills, and how do they become speech communities?
My 94th podcast is with Eric Donald Hirsch, an American educator and academic literary critic. Founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation, Hirsch is most known in the U.K. for his work on cultural literacy.
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In this podcast, I learn more about Hirsch's experiences working in Black colleges in America and their role in evidencing cultural literacy, plus what is meant by the term ‘knowledge-rich’? and the knowledge bases of language and why 'skills' itself, is knowledge.
Hirsch also busts a few myths about influencing Michael Gove and Nick Gibb and child-centred education and student accommodation and why we cannot leave children’s learning to chance, and how to mitigate this outcome.
Getting deeper into the conversation, Hirsch explains the construct of the ethnicity and the need for a group ethnicity in schools, plus his theoretical and pragmatic tips for teachers.
E. D. Hirsch highlights that in order to understand, we must create classrooms which are speech communities. In order to have a knowledge base, you must have the language base, and one cannot exist without the other. Make sure you take a look at Hirsch’s new book “How To Educate A Citizen."