For the song "Slow Education" by the Silver Jews, see
Bright Flight.
Slow education is based upon
Socratic, adaptive and non-standards based approaches to teaching. Slow education is in part a reaction to the overly compacted course content requirements teachers are experiencing from nationalized
curricula worldwide, which many educators find students cannot cover in a single year with sufficient depth.[1] Slow education is also a reaction to the proliferation of
standardized testing, favoring instead
qualitative measures of student and teacher success.[2] Slow education is frequently a feature in
free,
democratic and
home schools.[3] However, it can be a significant element in any classroom, including those in
college preparatory and rigorous environments. The term "slow education" was derived from the distinction between
slow food and
fast food or
junk food, and is an effort to associate quality, culture, sustainability, and personalization with quality schooling.[4][5][6]
^Miller, John P. (2005). Educating for Wisdom and Compassion: Creating Conditions for Timeless Learning. Thousand Oaks: Corwin. p. 108.
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^de Zilwa, Deanna (2007). "Australian University Leaders: Agents of the McUniversity, Entrepreneurial Transformers, or Bureaucrats?". In Richard, Pamela B. (ed.). Global Issues in Higher Education. New York: Nova Science. p. 162.
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