EDUC264 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Alternative Medicine, Progressive Education, Programme For International Student Assessment
22 Aug 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Group 2: differences in our education, should use mind, body and soul in one. Problems with plato: paternalistic, objective mind independent truth, platonic ideals real of forms. Epistemic grounding: in our profession our epistemological views dictate our pedagogical views (hein, 1991) Rise of science: objective, empiricist, fallibilist. Map: w1: is schooling education, w2: what is education, conservative, liberal, progressive. What is the purpose of education: conservative, the preservation of a societal system that already exists, liberal, more focused on self-actualisation. Progressive education: an educational philosophy that aims to transform the present system: political, social or education itself. Ensure food and water security for all species. Correcting the toxic belief in the infallibility of self-regulating markets against neoliberalism. Underlying problem: gfc was caused by elite of current educational system. Sees education as a fundamental reason for this since ceos and politicians are from the elite. To accomplish this: schools need to be smaller, age-integrated.
