HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION in 2015 � Predictions
Students begin questioning the importance of a school education from high school itself. In other words where there are equitable relationships, control over the educational process, and the probabilities of basic change we needn’t look beyond the process. Dewey (1916: 7) argued, thus, that our ‘chief business’ as educators is to enable folks ‘to share in a typical life’.
Ultimately our efforts at facilitating learning should be judged by the extent to which they further the capacity to flourish and to share in life. It is in this means that we end up with a definition of education as ‘the clever, hopeful and respectful cultivation of learning undertaken in the belief that every one should have the possibility to share in life’.
Alongside is a disposition or haltung (a concern to act respectfully, knowledgeably and properly) and interaction (joining with others to build relationships and environments for learning). In the …
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