Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
2-20-2013
Publication Title
Edutopia International Online Magazine
Additional Publication URL
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/questions-determining-what-students-need-lori-desautels
Abstract
This morning I sat in two inner city middle school classrooms in Indianapolis as I do most weeks. But something struck me deeply in the center of my chest as I was observing the boredom and apathy in the detached, sleepy and seemingly sad faces of many of these seventh grade students. The teachers were cheerfully present, the standards were posted, the paperwork was almost completed, there were no overt disruptions, and compliance was at hand.
The procedures, rules and transitions were hard-wired into the brains of these middle school students and adults, but an "inner" inspiration and deep subconscious yearning for something else attached to the notion of the "purpose of school" were nowhere to be found.
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Recommended Citation
Desautels, Lori, "Questions and Answers: Determining What Our Students Really Need" (2013). Scholarship and Professional Work – Education. 121.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/coe_papers/121
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