What value do schools bring?The accepted assumption is that schools are sites for learning and the role of educators to equip students with the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in the future.As Mitra(20...What value do schools bring?The accepted assumption is that schools are sites for learning and the role of educators to equip students with the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in the future.As Mitra(2011)states in a paper called“The Social and Economic Benefits of Public Education”:The fundamental outcome desired for education is that it will pass on to each child the information and skills they will use throughout their lifetime.At its core,every school is a place where children learn what adults in the community already know,a place for the transmission of knowledge.(p.6)This is also reflected in the manner in which we evaluate schools and teachers.We give the students tests to figure out how much they have learned,against some externally developed criteria of how much they should know by what age.And we hold students and schools accountable for this through a variety of accumulated test results.But,what if this entire assumption(that schools are sites for learning)is wrong(or incomplete)?展开更多
文摘What value do schools bring?The accepted assumption is that schools are sites for learning and the role of educators to equip students with the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in the future.As Mitra(2011)states in a paper called“The Social and Economic Benefits of Public Education”:The fundamental outcome desired for education is that it will pass on to each child the information and skills they will use throughout their lifetime.At its core,every school is a place where children learn what adults in the community already know,a place for the transmission of knowledge.(p.6)This is also reflected in the manner in which we evaluate schools and teachers.We give the students tests to figure out how much they have learned,against some externally developed criteria of how much they should know by what age.And we hold students and schools accountable for this through a variety of accumulated test results.But,what if this entire assumption(that schools are sites for learning)is wrong(or incomplete)?
