CHAPTER 4THE METHODOLOGY
“Please don't make me go out on the playground and drag my wagon around pretending I'm a pioneer moving West, it's humiliating.” My 5th-grade student Michael was adamant, refusing to join his fellow students on an imagined trek Westward to see if the covered wagons they had built would make it across rugged terrain. I thought he was just being a smart aleck, because he had said that he liked finding out about the ratio between the front and rear wheels of his wagon, how the front wheels turned with a movable axle, and why the bowed wagon top was covered with Osnaburg fabric (all part of the 5th-grade curriculum).
I was trained to be a teacher at the UCLA Lab School by John Dewey's disciples, so whether the context ...
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