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Did you know ... you could also grind down a spare room when the children leave home? (as opposed to building a wintergarden so other children than your own could use it as a learning retreat)

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(Anti-)patterns that may be useful in education or appear to be about education.

[edit] Educational

Some anti-patterns become patterns in an educational context; some don't.

• Challenge hypothesis / convictions

• Conflict potential

• Demanding too much from children

• Exaggerated effects

• Elephant in a china shop

• Hints that only make sense after sth. has been learned independently

• Hypothesis

• Making circumstances speak for themselves

• Next step on the wrong track

• Repetition of the same concept with different words

• Reproducibility proves difficult

• Reversal of position

• Spot the anti-pattern

[edit] About education

• Contradiction

• Disrespect for illiterate people

• Education induces segregation

• Events happen in pairs

• Obvious but meaningless association

• Reintroduction of behavior you are trying to avoid

• Responsibility vacuum

• Teacher from a different planet

• Unexpected fluctuation of measurements

• What you try to avoid may get more difficult to avoid

[edit] (Anti-)patterns of the school metaphor

• 6,525,170,264 protégés

• Mentor in detention

• School TV focuses on people who have or cause a problem

• Schoolbook project

• Young pupils as teachers

• "Dad people" don't exist

[edit] See also

• Upbringing and education (Meta Metaphor)