I don’t think that I understand how Mini-Munich, KidZania, etc. address the following Hard Problem. Before the rise of complex technologies, kids would easily learn to do economically useful activities like cooking, seeding or caring about livestock because they didn’t require much abstract thought. Nowadays, activities like engineering require complex knowledge which is harder to ground in reality without expensive experiments to, for example, understand whether a piece in a mechanism is well designed and will work for a long time. How theory is to be taught without coercive techniques or without aligning the kids to learn theory by having them learn simplified theory?
I don’t think that I understand how Mini-Munich, KidZania, etc. address the following Hard Problem. Before the rise of complex technologies, kids would easily learn to do economically useful activities like cooking, seeding or caring about livestock because they didn’t require much abstract thought. Nowadays, activities like engineering require complex knowledge which is harder to ground in reality without expensive experiments to, for example, understand whether a piece in a mechanism is well designed and will work for a long time. How theory is to be taught without coercive techniques or without aligning the kids to learn theory by having them learn simplified theory?