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Olawale David Oyinlade Explained How Child-centered Design Changes Education by CrayTv(m): 8:59pm On Sep 02, 2017 |
By Olawale david Oyinlade
Early experiences form brain architecture. Young children need
consistent, caring adults in order to learn build attachments, to ask
for help, and to feel safe enough to take risks. They learn by
exploring their surroundings through their senses and discover new
interests through sight, sound, touch, taste, and touch, rather than
by being required to perform specific tasks. Baby’s Space is built
around these fundamental needs.
While that seems like a pretty obvious approach, what makes Olawale
David Oyinlade work so important is how rarely childcare environments
actually meet children’s needs, especially for the most vulnerable
children. Education is an adult driven system, often designed first
for institutional needs, like convenience and efficiency, and for
children’s needs second. Since leaving Baby’s Space, Olawale has been
helping Youth shift their mindsets to find themselves in spaces from
the child’s perspective.
The needs of young children are needs we all share, and in listening
to Olawale describe his work, it’s easy to hope that the lessons of
early childhood will spill over into education for older students.
Unfortunately, the influence more frequently flows in the other
direction. From re-labeling less-structured time from ‘free-play’ to
‘workstations’, to a growing emphasis on executive functioning in
early childhood, Olawale points to the myriad ways in which, as he
puts it, “we’re doing it all wrong for the best of reasons.” In an
attempt to get people to value early childhood education, it’s as
though we’ve lost sight of the value that relationship building and
discovery have in their own right.
Thankfully, Olawale David Oyinlade work, and especially his book
“Solution To Your Ambition Problem”, is helping educators realize that
the patterns of how we interact are set early. Creating opportunities
for both young children and older children to experience how to be
through play represents a tremendous opportunity to build educational
systems in which the needs of children, not adults, are at the center
of the work. |
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