Essay On Role Of Teacher In Education

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EDUCATION 3A
SURNAME : TOLA
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DUE DATE : 17/03/2014

The teachers play a significant role in the emancipation of learners and in the promotion of equality in schools. The role of the teacher in school is to facilitate and transmit knowledge to learners through explanation so that the learners could make sense of the material. In this essay I will discuss about Rancieres notion of equality and emancipation and also discuss about its implication in the education system. The aspect that I will be focusing on here will be the one of the role/identity of student and learning. On the role of student and learning I will argue if how the learners learn and how they can learn best to be emancipated. The learner is often defined as the blank slate that inherit the knowledge from the teacher.
The role of the teacher and teaching in school is vital important because the teacher is the only person that explain the material to the learners. There was the aspect of Joseph Jacotor who gave the learners the French text and expected the learners to read and understand it without the help of the master. He said that learners can be able to learn alone without the aid of the explicator. I agree will his views because the learners can be able to learn a text without the aid of the teacher as they did learnt their mother tongue alone. Learners had their own intelligence to learn their mother tongue without the aid of explanation. The teacher can o...

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... explication is not good enough for the emancipation of learners. The good thing was that of letting the learners to use their own intelligence to master the text as they did when they were learning their mother tongue and the way they use to understand Joseph Jacotor’s French language. The theory of emancipation and equality provides the opportunity for every individual to raise their options, thoughts, capability and to use their own intelligence to think and solve problems. Learning can take place when both the teacher and learners acknowledge each other’s intelligence and a will to learn. Learners have their intelligence which can be a prior knowledge in school. I have come to realize that Jacque Ranciere’s notion on equality and emancipation are very good for the emancipation of learner’s by letting learners to discover and do things without the explicator.

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