Problem Statement: The key issue raised in this case is the unethical work practices demonstrated by the professors at the Canadian Anonymous University. The professors abuse their power by subcontracting their graduate students to teach their classes at the university during the semester while they teach abroad. As a result, the students attending these professor’s classes are not receiving the same level of education from the teacher’s assistants that they would have originally had with the professors. Consequently, these practices effect not only the education of the students who attend the university, but the university as an organization as well. Causes: One prevalent cause of this problem is poor communication between the International Programs office and the academic departments of the university.
Secondly, the clash among discourse. This is a big issue. Dictionary definition of discourse is ‘verbal expression in speech or writing’ or ‘a formal, lengthy discussion of a subject either written or spoken’. Students begin university, they see things they recognize, and that’s what they want to communicate about. Discourse proves difficult for the newer students as they aren’t familiar with university curriculum.
Berkowitz quotes King who states “most college men have a misconception of the purpose of education. Most of the "brethren" think that education should equip them with the proper instruments of exploitation so that they can forever trample over the masses. Still others think that education should furnish them with noble ends rather than means to an end.” Education is not just a tool individual learns to succeed in life. Education is a process where one learns to reason for their own, from experiences others have, to solve problems. This is what King seeks to explain to the reader in his essay.
In Freire’s and Pratt’s writings they share similar concepts about education through contact zones and problem-posing education, practices of each concept they have directly been apart of and criticism against the banking system which are having a huge impact on the modern education system today. Freire and Pratt both oppose the banking education system due to its attempts to teach students as if they are a homogenous group and to program them to be robots of stored deposits of information given by the teacher. Freire’s problem- posing concept introduces a new student/teacher relationship that makes them more equal. Pratt’s contact zone concept is “ the space in which transculturation takes place…where two different cultures meet and inform each other, often in highly asymmetrical ways” (Pratt 524). Freire’s problem-posing concept consists of the teachers and students having a jointly responsible task of learning through dialogue and teaching each other, not one particular person teaching another.
In modern times, many articles have been written and released criticizing America’s modern education. For example, “A Mathematician’s Lament”, written by Paul Lockhart, addresses the author’s displeasure with how mathematics is taught in many schools. Paulo Freire’s article, “The ‘Banking’ Concept,” travels in the same direction as Lockhart’s, except Freire addresses the educational system as a whole. He theorizes that the modern model of education is oppressing students by putting them in an environment where the teacher simply “deposits” information for the students to “receive, memorize, and repeat.” Freire proceeds to bash the modern model of education, which he coins “the “banking” concept of education. He extracts and amplifies the flaws that the “banking “concept possesses, and suggests a new model which he names the “problem-posing method.” Freire utilizes his critical views on modern day education to convey his opinion about the need for educational reform through hyperbolic language, comparison and contrast, and metaphors, demonstrating that problem-posing education allows people to develop their power to critically analyze “the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation,” therefore expanding their perspective beyond what is taught in the classroom.
When examining the relationship between Philosophy and curriculum an educator will understand that Philosophy is one of the foundations of education. An educational philosophy is the approach to education. It incorporates the values and ideals that we want to accomplish. The curriculum is the diagram that encompasses the philosophy into the objectives of the lessons. In today’s world educators worry about lacking basic skills in Reading and Mathematics that our students are having and focus more on modern technology and having our students think out of the box.
Could technology hurt education or, is technology the revolution to education? The views on education and massive open online courses of Postman and Friedman are very contrasting and will be further discussed in this essay. According to Thomas Friedman, MOOCs are potentially the most essential addition to present-day education. That by having a MOOC available to those in under developed worlds it will open powerful minds to solve more of our frequent problems. Even though Neil Postman’s book, The End of Education, was written well before MOOCs were available it is still evident what his opinions on them would be.
They won’t help people who need them if these people don’t have money. This money will effects on education budget while this money should be spent on things that can help the student achievements like teachers training and modern labs facilities. Teacher training about modern teaching techniques is very important. Many researches which made on young students shows that
Tschinkel believes “we are failing to instill a love of learning in most of our students, replacing it instead with a pointless “game-the system” approach”. Tschinkel also states, the blame falls not only on the students, but on the entire educational system- professors, teachers, parents, the media- which encourages the sport metaphor and misrepresents the value of a true education. Tschinkel feels that students can change this mentality and actually take their education seriously however, this transition will be hard. The educational value of this article is for students and professors to realize
plagerism has begun to affect professors at high levels diverting them from the work of developing students writing and critical thinking abilities. students dont seem to realize how professors can tell whether the paper is plagerized or not.well, professors know what a student is capable of, how they write, the language they use and etc. professors can get previous essays from the student and combine them and realize that the quality and style are markedly different from what they have seen from the student before. therefore, even writing one or two sentences off the internet can be easily found from the website you've got it from which means that students dont have a way out of it. plagerism is more common then