Schools have not changed much since their global expansion beginning in the 19th century and continue to be organised to deliver prescribed ‘book content’ throughthe teachers in a highly structured ‘classroom settings’.Some of the areas where the schools have unfailingly retained focus are:1. Delivering a ‘defined universal curriculum’ as the be-all and end-all of knowledge […]
The following tabular representation offers a comparison of the school education in 1810s and 2010s. Indeed, schools have not changed at all over the past 200 years on most of the key dimensions and are much unprepared to address the changes in the society!To top it, two of the changes being brought about by the […]
In the previous question we discussed the changes observed in industrial societies between 1810s and 2010s. The tabular representation below captures thechanges needed in the school education system to reflect the changes in the ‘state of the society’. ‘The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn’t need to be reformed — it […]
The last decade may be the most ‘happening’ decade ever. Expectedly, we should be prepared for fairly stark contrast between the state of the society in 1810s and2010s and the same is tabled as under: Society has greatly transformed between 1820s and 2010s. Expectedly, the changing social context demands changes in the way schools function […]
Educational imperatives are organically derived out of the state of a society. In turn, the educational imperatives dictate the design of the schools. The following tabular representation links the educational imperatives (which emerge out of the specific conditions of the society) and the key elements of the school designed to secure the educational imperatives.The table […]
The state of a society dictates the educational imperatives for its children. For instance, we can easily explore the state of society of the current developed world in the early 19th century when it was rapidly industrializing (around the time schools started to get mass-scaled) and see for ourselves how the educational imperatives naturally emerged […]
