Tag: educational system
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Holding the Standard….
Those who do not work in education would not know that the situation is far from good, (perhaps even because we are afraid to complain about it publicly for one reason or another) and this is not the fault of the children in it, and very often not of the schools themselves, some of who…
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Not for Employment but for Life
John Dewey once wrote that education and experience cannot be automatically equated to one another, and that is absolutely true to some extent. Education in itself is useful change that occurs in experience, the encounter with a different other (see Piaget and his theory of schemas). Non-useful change can be turned into useful if a…
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Sectoral Agreement Woes and Whoas
The meeting regarding the sectoral agreement for educators in Malta is fast approaching and my fellow educators and I have already started working ourselves up. Without a shadow of a doubt, a lot of the discourse started floating around wage raises and finances, and numbers of which I have so far made it absolutely clear…
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The Teacher as Anthropologist: Going Native
Why do we insist on teaching children on our own worlds instead of theirs?
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