An excerpt from Eva Keiffenheim’s Learn Letter re: A New Education Paradigm (emphasis DSC)
Here are a couple of underlying assumptions within our current education paradigm:
- assessment through standardized testing and grades
- outcome-focus on academic achievements
- the purpose of education is to produce future workforce
- teachers and professors are the unique source of knowledge
- an inherent dominance (adults > children; professionals > students)
- lectures and listening are a valid form of learning
- subjects exist in hierarchies (math, languages > art, music)
- content should be delivered in discrete subjects
I invite you to question the current paradigm: How would schools and universities look like so that all young people can flourish?
From DSC:
Eva’s reflections remind me of what I was trying to say the other day about how ideas start out as fragile…but if they take hold, they become very powerful. Today’s education paradigms are a great example of that. These paradigms have deep roots that are very hard to change.
