Tag: educator
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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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Educator, Education, Educated
The bane of an educator’s existence is to not be able to educate. But what does “to educate” mean? What does “to educate” mean in Malta? What does “to educate” mean in a Church School in Malta? Yes, I know that each school has its own ethos outlining this quite plainly. But it does pay…
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