Lecture A Lecture On The Politics Of Schooling

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Politics of Schooling
Lecture 1
This lecture was about what type of institutions schools actually are. It was stated that schools are places where teachers and students go.
We discussed the ideas of a school, those of teaching and learning, and the perceived idea of schools being political neutral places. Having said that ‘Schools are political institutions’; ‘No political theory is adequate unless it is applicable to children…’ (www.theatlantic.com, Education as a political institution’). Schooling raises a whole range of political issues. Schooling and teaching are regarded as politically problematic areas of political behaviours. This type of behaviour is not only evident in teachers and the school, but also through the curriculum, …show more content…

Moreover, students are not a physical object that can be manipulated, but persons, meaning, individuals acting as holders of rights.
Even schools are not something natural, they are institutions, so they have a history too, which is important for us to understand what we have today and the political agenda.
During our lecture we briefly discussed the issue of home-schooling, mainly present in other societies. In my opinion, this concept would be attractive to various students, since schooling here is not the ordinary system we normally think of. Home-schooling might also encourage more students to pursue their studies, since they can do so from the comfort of their own home.
Home-schooling is also referred to as home education, whereby a parent acts as a teacher, or a tutor goes to the student’s home. In the former case, the parent might not be adequately qualified to provide thorough education to the child. In addition to this, it might be the case that the child does not take his/her education seriously since his/her own parent is the teacher.

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I dare to assume that early schooling was gradually implemented in the education system since the concept of enlightenment started to be attributed importance. This is because as we said in the lectures, the age of enlightenment brought about the French Revolution, and therefore, the enlightenment era was the age of revolution, which is also closely linked to reason. I believe that in order to bring reason among children, people in the enlightenment age were very much in favour of early schooling, because in my opinion, you have to adopt principles because reason tells you that that is what you are supposed to do.
I am sure that early childhood education also aids in socialisation. Early childhood education provides children with an early experience of the society in general, for example, these children definitely do not suffer cultural deprivation. I think that all this helps to shape the human mind, and therefore these children might grow up to be more creative, intelligent

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