Tidying the desk.
06/06/07 20:19
Today I found myself tidying my unused
desk in the living room, purely because Mirinda had been rooting in
it and the lid was open and stuff was falling out. And I found an
old note book with this interesting quote:
"All over the world school has an anti-educational effect on society: school is recognised as the institution which specialises in education. The failures of school are taken by most people as proof that education is a very costly, very complex, always arcane and frequently almost impossible task."
It may or may not be from the book "Outcomes Based Education - the State's attack on our children's values" by Luksik and Hoffecker , because the name and publishing details of this book are on the following page. On searching the subject online the quote does begin to make some sense. The theory appears to be that you decide what it is you want your pupils to be able to do when they have finished and design the curriculum and teaching accordingly.
I found a very interesting article: What's wrong with Outcome-based Education?
I guess as so often I am just left bemused by these theories, that seem to gain such ground with educationalists but as always see the student merely as the object of the system, not a human being with opinions and aspirations of their own.
"All over the world school has an anti-educational effect on society: school is recognised as the institution which specialises in education. The failures of school are taken by most people as proof that education is a very costly, very complex, always arcane and frequently almost impossible task."
It may or may not be from the book "Outcomes Based Education - the State's attack on our children's values" by Luksik and Hoffecker , because the name and publishing details of this book are on the following page. On searching the subject online the quote does begin to make some sense. The theory appears to be that you decide what it is you want your pupils to be able to do when they have finished and design the curriculum and teaching accordingly.
I found a very interesting article: What's wrong with Outcome-based Education?
I guess as so often I am just left bemused by these theories, that seem to gain such ground with educationalists but as always see the student merely as the object of the system, not a human being with opinions and aspirations of their own.
p.s. The purpose of this blog is to enable me to collect the random
wanderings of my brain in the hope of making some sense of them and
working towards some coherence of ideas.