Tuesday 10th December - The government announces how it intends to uphold the coalition promise to REMOVE & REPLACE the current Relationship & Sexuality Guidelines... and we take a first look.
Anytime someone uses the word "should" in the context of what 'should or shouldn't' be taught in schools, they are expressing a Philosophy of Education. There was a time (pre 1980s) when true Philosophers of Education led policy-making in Education. Their decisions were based on a deep understanding of the concept and aimsof true Education, to ensure that the students were transported to a place called 'the highest good', both for themselves individually and for for society. The problems of society were not fed into schools when the Philosophers of Education were directing policy, because doing so compromised the 'pursuit of the highest good'. Then in the mid 70s to mid 80s, the Philosophy of Education was pushed aside by the Psychology of Education. When that happened, the psychologists could not resist the temptation to feed the problems of society into the schools in a very misguided attempt to use 'education to solve the problems of society', and then also to apply military style instructional systems design to the curriculum- i.e. unit standards,'learning objectives', performance crieria, 'skills, attitudes and knowledge'. If the reader is young, these words might sound like a normal part of education- but- for older readers we can easily see the imposition of training structures and concepts and the erosion of true Education. Our Minister of Education Ms Stanford is too young to recognise the differences.- perhI wonder if she might accept an invitation to experience some real life true Education so she can experience the difference.
Now to get to the topic of parents input- definitely yes!!! The Philosophers of Education always honoured parental authority in the lives of school students.. however, I would encourage parents to advocate not just for their own parental authority but also for the restoration of the true ( old-school) Philosophy of Education as a compulsory core course for everyone involved in Education, and particularly for policy-makers and curriculum designers. Over the past 35 years there has been a total deconstruction and disintegration of the Philodophy of Education- beware! Don't be deceived by people who call themselves 'philosophers of education' but who are really purveyors of harmful indoctrinating ideologies. Maybe it would be timely to develop and run a workshop and tutorials on The ( true) Philosophy of Education.
Good watch and listen, Penny Marie. You give the information very clearly and well explained.
Thank you Katrina, your encouragement is very appreciated!!
Great interview
Anytime someone uses the word "should" in the context of what 'should or shouldn't' be taught in schools, they are expressing a Philosophy of Education. There was a time (pre 1980s) when true Philosophers of Education led policy-making in Education. Their decisions were based on a deep understanding of the concept and aimsof true Education, to ensure that the students were transported to a place called 'the highest good', both for themselves individually and for for society. The problems of society were not fed into schools when the Philosophers of Education were directing policy, because doing so compromised the 'pursuit of the highest good'. Then in the mid 70s to mid 80s, the Philosophy of Education was pushed aside by the Psychology of Education. When that happened, the psychologists could not resist the temptation to feed the problems of society into the schools in a very misguided attempt to use 'education to solve the problems of society', and then also to apply military style instructional systems design to the curriculum- i.e. unit standards,'learning objectives', performance crieria, 'skills, attitudes and knowledge'. If the reader is young, these words might sound like a normal part of education- but- for older readers we can easily see the imposition of training structures and concepts and the erosion of true Education. Our Minister of Education Ms Stanford is too young to recognise the differences.- perhI wonder if she might accept an invitation to experience some real life true Education so she can experience the difference.
Now to get to the topic of parents input- definitely yes!!! The Philosophers of Education always honoured parental authority in the lives of school students.. however, I would encourage parents to advocate not just for their own parental authority but also for the restoration of the true ( old-school) Philosophy of Education as a compulsory core course for everyone involved in Education, and particularly for policy-makers and curriculum designers. Over the past 35 years there has been a total deconstruction and disintegration of the Philodophy of Education- beware! Don't be deceived by people who call themselves 'philosophers of education' but who are really purveyors of harmful indoctrinating ideologies. Maybe it would be timely to develop and run a workshop and tutorials on The ( true) Philosophy of Education.