Professor Michael Young’s work has been widely cited as a key reference for Knowledge Rich Curriculum and Memory brigade. He is not happy about it according to a new TES article(link).
Interestingly, his “powerful knowledge” perspective was emerged from his South African experience. In this article he shares his experience which might be interesting as a co-read-along with the following video by Ghana’s Education minister in which he says;
“You cannot memorize your way out of poverty”
I really think the relevancy of memorization based educational practices need more scientific investigation. How much can and should we remember in a dynamic and information-abundant-world should be investigated.
How much fundamentally transient information should we remember. ? Who get to decide ?(Blind man leading blind man?)
I think the cognitive view totally ignores human Institution and tool building capabilities, and on how these cumulative culture optimize human capabilities. This include things like”Air traffic protocol” to other forms of decision support systems.