Hebrew Bible and Christian Scriptures

The air was frosty in North Manchester Indiana as the spring term began. T. Wayne Reiman nearing retirement offered a course called the Philosophy of Education. I enrolled in the course as one of my last requirements for graduation. The class read as book by Carl Rogers, who I knew of from psychology classes. The name of the book was Freedom to Learn. Rogers among other things commended the idea of learning contracts. Paulo Freire was another reading in this class. Freire described an implicit philosophy of education metaphor that dominated higher education in the twentieth century, the banking idea. The student comes to the bank. The professor makes a deposit in the brain, or we might say the database of the student. The student pays tuition in exchange for this increased database. Freire challenged his readers to hold out for a different educational metaphor one with a more librerative outlook. Years of graduate school and teaching put me pretty far back into the banking model.

However, increasingly I decided to go back to the future. Over the semester break I read The Adult Learner by Malcolm Knowles fifth edition revised by Elwood F. Holton III and Richard A. Swanson. I have decided to go back learning contracts and a more self consciously student centered approach in my classes.
This semester I want to see what happens when the adult learner encounters a Web 2.0 world. I wonder where it will lead.