For many individuals when reflecting on education and what it means to be both a learner and facilitator they often refer to the hegemonic way of viewing education. This form of education is the dominant view found throughout society in which every individual is promised equal opportunities and “plays” on the same level playing field as Boler and Zembylas (2003) mention (p. 107). With this education to be a learner is to be a subject and accept a passive role. An educator, on the other hand, receives authority and is highly knowledgeable. Although many do not consider the problems within this education because it is what they are accustomed to, this paper seeks to emphasize underlying problems such as focusing on issues of equity, oppression, power, identity and race. Through understanding the problems with the current educational system my personal experiences will be reflected upon in order to critically engage with these problems. In addition, I will also focus on what I believe the values of education should be in connecting these values with the various theories of popular education. Popular education will be used as a …show more content…
Now that I am able to understand the problems within educational systems and reflect on the changes that need to be made through popular education and my own understandings, the value of education changes drastically. Education is no longer a tool to become “smarter” as I once believed but rather the potential to understand our social identities and how we can connect these identities to the world in order to find our calling. The ideas presented from various authors have provided hope that change is a goal that is realistic and we are always encouraged to think about
Throughout many years, education has played an important role in improving our minds and society. However, what many people tend to forget is that our education is not at the best it can be. Education is defined as receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university. Many people today questions whether or not our education depends on the people teaching it or if it’s the student’s responsibility to want to learn. "To what extent do our schools serve the goals of a true education?" Education helps people learn new things, but it can be changed. Although education helps students learn and plan for the future, it can be improved to help benefit students ahead of time.
Imagine a world without education where human history is totally forgotten by the young generation, and individuals are forced to live in their basic everyday life without having the power to change it. Such in balance or disorders are the growing problems that occur around the world, which were pointed out in many educational essays like “The Educated Student” By Barber, “The student and the University” by Bloom, and “Class in America – 2003” by Mantsios. These essays are among the many of their kind that address the status education in the modern world as being forgotten and lost behind all the technology and commercialization of education. This was the point of attention of scholars like Barber, Bloom, and Mantsios who came up with a common
Time is changing, what was once viewed as normal is now considered out of the ordinary. When we think about out of the ordinary we come to conclusion that it is something un-normal or unnatural. In spite of it all, we must embrace the changes within our problems and solutions. The social norms have differed immensely throughout the last 50 years, such as holding the door for women, saying please and thank you and so forth. There has been an increasing gap between the ways of thinking and the way of behaving within an ideal society. This has then resulted to be an indicator and ignition for a number of social problems. Throughout the following essay I will be explaining how the change in social values within the American Society in time has change the face of education in the United States.
Looking back over the course of the semester, I feel that I learned many new and interesting uses for technology within the classroom – both for classrooms that have a lot of technology and for classrooms that are limited with technology. For the majority of the class, we utilized William Kists’ book The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New Media Age (2010), which provided multiple modes of instruction that both utilized and/or created technology. One of the first things that I remember, and consequently that stuck with me through the course’s entirety, is that individuals must treat everything as a text. Even a garden is a text. The statement made me change the way that I traditionally viewed Language Arts both as a student and as a teacher, as I very narrowly saw literature and works of the like as texts only; however, by considering nearly anything as a text, one can analyze, study, and even expand his/her knowledge. Kist (2010) states that society is “experiencing a vast transformation of the way we “read” and “write,” and a broadening of the way we conceptualize “literacy” (p. 2). In order to begin to experience and learn with the modern classroom and technologically advanced students, individuals must begin to see new things as literature and analyze those things in a similar manner.
Literacy as by definition is the knowledge or competency one knows in a specific area. Using this I interpret Literacy as how to understand situation and unexpected circumstances. Until very recently, maybe within the past year in a half, I never had to apply how I understood Literacy in a manner in which others could understand it. I failed to realize at that time that not everybody felt or thought the same way I did. It was especially difficult during this time as I began to possess a leadership role in many of the extracurricular activities I was apart of such as band and in my UIL events as the upper classmen I had known and who held some of those responsibilities were suddenly gone. This reality was immensely crushing losing those I had
Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Still today, we live in a world where fear, discrimination, privilege, inequality and hatred plague our society. Education is fundamental in eradicating these elitist, capitalist and dominant perspectives. An equitable education empowers young individuals to bring about change in the hope of creating a better society. Thus, a good education can prove to be instrumental in tackling current social issues that are prevalent across the globe. At the foundation of every educational institution and basic core of every educator, there lies a philosophy of education which serves to influence what students will be taught and the manner in which it will
In life people want to be successful. Success can have different meanings based on a person’s personal beliefs. It is well known that education plays an important role in success. There are certain achievements in our society that equate to a successful or prosperous life. Regardless of your goals it is well known that you must dedicate yourself to get what you want and strive in what is today a competitive world. From the beginning of a child’s education they learn that working hard and receiving an education will allow them to achieve their goals. In a perfect world this is fair and makes sense. While education seems like the route to success, one should question its practices and view the negative effects. Traditional education along with
Education is valued greatly in the contemporary world. We believe that the knowledge gained at universities and colleges is the key to finding a good job, being prosperous and succesful in life. Education is seen as a kind of legacy – it encompasses all the values, experiences, and achievements of our ancestors, and in order to ensure the survival of a culture it must be passed on to future generations. However, schooling should never have been made mandatory.
Throughout the studies of some typical issues in education that the authors cited in the three texts, this essay will explore the perspectives on education and key aspects in each article. Meanwhile, the implications for contemporary education and their significances will also be examined in this essay.
There was a significant amount of knowledge given in this course, involving concepts that in our teaching career will be extremely important. From this course I have gained a significant amount of learning experiences. I had the pleasure learning about how the educational system has come to be what it is today and who were the important people in the creation of the public education, like Horace Mann. Watching the videos and reading the chapters required has opened my eyes more of how a teacher should respond to different situations involving a student, For example when we read the chapter on the laws that revolve around the educators and the students. I had absolutely no clue that students had rights while in school property. Another learning
Education is an activity we all feel that we know something about, having had personal and direct experience of it. Education has become a large industry employing many hundreds of thousands of people in Britain alone. It is supposedly an important part of ensuring future economic development yet it also imposes a major financial cost. Education plays a central role in society and also in all of our lives. So education is a very complex set of activities and institutions which is not easy to define. Students know that they have to trust that sometimes, what they are doing isn’t going to affect them immediately but it will in the long run. Peters (1966) an education philosopher said:
Globally, a great amount of emphasis is placed on education as it enforces and allows for social change. According to Freire (1993), it is through education that people learn to observe, understand, criticize and transform the world around them. Hence, the endeavour towards education is that it should become emancipatory thereby enabling one to be free from the control or restraint of another. Paulo Freire presented his theories surrounding the system of oppression that exists in society and its impact on education through his book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. This essay will provide an outline on incidents that have occurred during my educational experiences and how they relate to Freire’s theory on pedagogy of the oppressed. The discussion
When asked what I believed to be the greatest challenge for schools today the first thoughts that came to mind were problems such as low salary, diversity in the classroom, and changes in curriculum. As I thought further I realized that those problems are microscopic compared to the problem that the schools face with attempting to get parents involved. I am a huge advocate for the phrase “education starts at home” and I personally believe that the success of a student, not only in the classroom but life in general, truly depends on the support system that they have around them. A student must be continuously reminded that education is important in and outside of the classroom.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” (Nelsen Mandela).The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education (Martin Luther King Jr). Education is not preparing for life but it is life on its own since it is subjected to change. Education had been define differently but all these definition evolve around particular aspect which are: the teacher, leaners, and the development skills and knowledge. In this essay I will look at the different ways of defining education and it’s understanding, furthermore I will critically evaluate each definition of education on how it had affected or impacted education used
Education is a vital part of society. It serves the beneficial purpose of educating our children and getting them ready to be productive adults in today's society. But, the social institution of education is not without its problems. Continual efforts to modify and improve the system need to be made, if we are to reap the highest benefits that education has to offer to our children and our society as a whole.