Liberal Perspectives: Role of Education
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- Liberal Perspectives: Role of Education
- Child Centred Education
- Dewey: American, the job of education is to encourage individuals to develop their potential as human beings, schools should cater for the physical, emotional and spiritual talents of everyone, people should learn by experience by doing things rather than being told
- William Tyndale 1960s-1970s: Britain saw a movement towards progressive child centred education based on liberal principles, education was designed to foster talents of each unique individual, William Tyndale went on strike in 1975 when the government criticised it for failing to develop basic skills like reading, writing and arithmetic
- Encouraging Individuals to Have Broad Knowledge
- Newman and Huxley: they argued that education should be for its own sake and develop students as well rounded human beings, broad knowledge of many subjects, in the USA the use of liberal education can be seen in many university courses which encourage students to pick a range of disciplines rather than 1 or 2 subjects
- New Vocationalism: liberals are critical of this, courses that prepare students for careers, subjects like journalism and events managements are becoming more popular than subjects like English Lit and Philosophy
- Alternative to the Mainstream System
- Illich: deschooling society, we should deschool society by getting rid of institutions of formal education, qualified teachers are not the best to undertake education, supported the idea of learning webs where people wanted to learn something could be put in contact with people who wanted to teach something so that they could learn in an informal way, links to Marxism
- Summerhill school:an independant British boarding school founded in 1921- school should be made to fit the child rather than the other way round, it is run as a democratic community, the running of the school is conducted in the school meetings, which anyone staff or pupil may attend and at which everyone has an equal vote
- Evaluative Points
- Dewey: only shows an American perspective- might not be relevant to the UK
- William Tyndale: wouldn't occur anymore due to the 1988 education reform act
- Newman and Huxley: only shows an American perspective- might not be relevant to the UK
- Illich: national curriculum introduced, so can't be deschooled
- Summerhill: children take advantage and don't go to school
- Child Centred Education
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