I remember that same scenario from that short period I spent teaching history GCSE! They didnt' transfer skills and knowledge from one context to another. Drove me mad... (natural teacher? NOT!).
I am pretty sure that I did this too - I can remember thinking at about 14 or so, that one of the nice things about DWJ books is that sometimes you get that moment when you the reader can see what's going on, but the character can't and then all the facts the character already had sort of slide round and make a whole new fact for them. She usually words it as 'and he saw that...'
I wonder if the modular structure and packed curriculum now makes it more difficult to relate all the chunks of info and synthesize them into a transferable form?
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Date: 2008-01-22 07:45 pm (UTC)I am pretty sure that I did this too - I can remember thinking at about 14 or so, that one of the nice things about DWJ books is that sometimes you get that moment when you the reader can see what's going on, but the character can't and then all the facts the character already had sort of slide round and make a whole new fact for them. She usually words it as 'and he saw that...'
I wonder if the modular structure and packed curriculum now makes it more difficult to relate all the chunks of info and synthesize them into a transferable form?