Hubert Dyasi, director of the City College Workshop Center, New York, NY, talks about social contexts for children's scientific activity that affirm connections between home and school. Excerpted from the national videoconference, The New Definition of Learning, The First Step for School Reform (NCREL, 1990).
"In science, at the workshop center, we use the local playgrounds and the local parks for scientific activities. Also it means children engage in social contexts characterized by children working by themselves or working in groups, sometimes working with teachers, sometimes working with teachers and parents all for a common purpose. And if we do this, these two things, using the artifacts and using the social contexts that is appropriate while showing the children and all those involved in the education system that those things are legitimate sources for learning, and therefore affirming connection and continuity between home and school as well as between school and continuing life."
Date posted: 1995