{"id":2665,"date":"2022-02-04T17:45:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T23:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationalrenaissance.com\/?page_id=2665"},"modified":"2022-02-05T06:10:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T12:10:27","slug":"the-apprenticeship-lesson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/educationalrenaissance.com\/the-apprenticeship-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apprenticeship Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dorothy Sayers famously referred to the trivium arts as the Lost Tools of Learning. One of the weaknesses of modern education is its focus on the knowledge-transfer approach to education, teaching students ‘subjects’ rather than apprenticing them into the traditional arts. When modern educators do focus on training in skills, it is often the “abstract intellectual skills” of Bloom’s Taxonomy<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our series on Aristotle’s intellectual virtues, we proposed a fivefold division of the arts<\/a>, to correspond with the intellectual virtue of techne<\/em>, artistry or craftsmanship. The five broad categories for classical Christian schools today are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Athletics, games and sports<\/li>
  2. Common and domestic arts<\/li>
  3. Professions and trades<\/li>
  4. Fine and performing arts<\/li>
  5. The liberal arts of language and number<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Do you teach something within one of these subjects? Then the Apprenticeship Lesson<\/a> format is for you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Download the Apprenticeship Lesson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

    Where Does the Apprenticeship Lesson Come From?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    In developing the Apprenticeship Lesson, we’ve drawn not only from Aristotle’s understanding of the intellectual virtues, but a number of important classical and modern resources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n