What is the purpose of education:
“Our job as teachers and parents is not to prepare students for something; our job is to help students prepare themselves for anything.” (Juliani, n.d.).
Juliani, A.J. (n.d.). What I’m Working On Right Now. Retrieved from http://ajjuliani.com
My inspirational quote:
“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.
‘The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn’t need to be reformed - it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardise education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions” (Robinson, 2009)
This quote resonated with me as I believe we do need to personalise education, we neeed to make connections with our students and discover the individual talents of the children and work with those students so they can finbd out what they are passionate about and use this to integreate their learning into.
The Greek word, ‘episteme’, refers to knowledge, and epistemology tries to identify the essential, defining components of knowledge. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP, 2017a) is one of the sources explaining that knowledge is a justified true belief. That source itself is an interesting one from the knowledge perspective since SEP has been designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up-to-date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public.
Purpose of Education
Biesta (2005) helps us to a wider view of education by focusing on the question of purpose – putting the ‘why’ of education before the ‘how’. He suggests three broad domains of educational purpose, illustrated in the diagram below by Phillipson (2014).
Goals for Maori Education
In February 2001 the first Hui Taumata Mātauranga provided a framework for considering Māori aspirations for education. It resulted in 107 recommendations based around the family, Māori language and custom, quality in education, Māori participation in the education sector and the purpose of education. There was also wide agreement about three goals for Māori education:
- to live as Māori
- to actively participate as citizens of the world
- to enjoy good health and a high standard of living
(Durie, 2004).
How is this different to Biesta's model of education? To live as Maori is different. This is what we need to unpack at Tuakau School. What does this mean for our parents and whanau.
Biesta, G. (2015). What is education for? On good education, teacher judgement, and educational professionalism. European Journal of Education, 50(1), 75-87.
Phillipson, N. (2014). Biesta, the Trivium and the unavoidable responsibility of teaching. 21st Century Learners. Retrieved from http://21stcenturylearners.org.uk/?p=492
Robinson, K. (2009). The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything. Penguin.
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