In ascertaining the differences and similarities between European and Western neighbours in how education serves its purpose, this essay will address various areas that concern the historical, political and social perspectives of primary schooling between both Danish and its English counterparts with reference to key issues such as relevant areas of concern. Thus highlighting matters such as the difference in starting ages; varied approaches to the curriculum and assessments in how both countries address its education, it is therefore significant in evaluating the backgrounds in both the Danish and English primary schools. This essay will emphasise how influential factors in education has developed in light of the twenty-first century, evaluating ideology which has directed both primary schools aims and outcomes that exemplifies the difficult outlook of education and learning viewed by its pupils as well as the teachers. Furthermore, highlighting and providing evidence for the importance of understanding the socio-cultural context and how learning takes place to meet the requirements and reinforce analysis on educational modifications in comparing educational systems and their outcome and effectiveness, this essay endeavours to provide knowledge, in comparing both countries’ primary schooling.
In looking at how education within the primary sector is organised between Denmark and England, it is necessary to examine the brief historical and political influences in order to pay homage to the structure and processes of both primary schools in reference with these chosen countries. In Denmark, the outcome for the educational system evolves from their culture and values that accentuates an individualism approach, thus, creating a pol...
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... pupils allowing for egalitarianism ship in addition to lifelong learning based upon its tradition for education. One may suggest that the absence of an evaluation system in Danish primary schooling provides Danish teachers with the proficiency of pastoral duties therefore, allowing particular interest with regards to the readiness of their pupils unlike its English counterparts. Teachers in the UK are constrained through teaching the curriculum, therefore, the child’s emotional, social and cognitive development is limited to the outer environment and therefore not the responsibility of schooling unlike its Danish counterparts, which is a shared responsibility of that of the school as well as the pupil’s home life. However, both countries share relatively the same traditions of education with the exception of evaluations throughout the extent of primary schooling.
In Dorothy Sayers essay “The Lost Tools of Learning” she observed that the modern education system has been successful in teaching subjects but failed at teaching students how to think and learn for themselves. She connects this failure of education to change that took place at the end of the Middle Ages in which the education system changed course from its true purpose. She proposes several questions for us to ponder this loss of education in today’s society: the modern custom of extending childhood, the lack of ability to recognize fact from opinions, unproductive debates where questions are not answered or even argued. One doesn’t need to look further than the current news media to see that her claim holds merit. Children are leaving schools
In this assignment I will justify the place of the following subjects within the primary national curriculum: Geography, History, Physical Education, Religious Education, Drama and Music. The reason I have chosen these subjects is because I have had an experience of them within my teaching placements and within seminars at university. In addition to this, I will analyse the use of cross-curricular learning in primary education and I will aim to explore the benefits and challenges of the approach.
The Education system of England and Wales underwent a number of important changes since 1944. This essay seeks to concentrate on these major changes describing the rationale and impact they had on the British education system.
With reference to the secondary curriculum in England, emphasis is placed upon the aims, values and purposes of education. With the implementation of the curriculum, pupils should be given the foundations to develop and apply the knowledge, skills and understanding that will help them become successful learners, confident individuals and responsible citizens; regardless of social background, culture, race, gender, differences in ability and disabilities (QCDA, 2010). In doing so, children will become more aware of, and engaged with, their local, national and international communities; and effectively widen their po...
Previously in class we had a lecture about education in our society. This lecture stressed the education gaps between students. These gaps were explained in the lecture by the social background of the children’s families. The article from Calarco also tries to explain these gaps by looking at the cultural background. In this paper she referred to the background differences as the cultural capital of the child. This article was very easy to relate to not only because of my own experiences going through the school system but because of the background knowledge from our class lectures.
The assumptions that everyone can learn, and that schools have the potential to transform a country with a tradition of hatred and an unequal distribution of wealth, extend from the vision of education as a democratic practice where there is "a struggle for both change and the freedom to change" (Irwin, p. 51, 1991). The change is about transforming an exclusive, often oppressive and disempowering system into a more inclusive, equal, and equitable one that is accessible to children from ...
Childhood can be seen as a social status with multiple meanings and expectations attached to it without a clearly defined end or beginning (Montgomery 2009), This essay will introduce different sociological perspectives on what childhood is since childhood is not universal rather is it mobile and shifting this means children experience various childhoods there are local and global variations(Waller 2009), a Childs experience can be influenced by their gender, ethnicity, culture and social class which this essay will expand on. The essay will then move forward to focusing on childhood in local and global countries to investigate the differences they have among each other lastly the essay will go onto ways an professional can help acknowledge all children diversity and create an inclusive environment regardless of their differences (Penn 2008).inclusion provides support to all children so that their experiences in an educational; setting encourages them to be as involved and independent as possible as well as help them understand the differences among their class mates
middle of paper ... ... Bibliography Black, Jeffrey. A. A. (1991) The 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary' of the 'Second School Readiness [Electronic version].
”, By Ryan Cox provides a theoretical framework for understanding the connection between democracy and how the education system plays a role in that of a democratic society. This article opens with the introduction section speaking about the distribution of government spending and its relationship between public and private schooling, one of the main points made in the opening paragraph of the introduction section is that the overall focus of government spending is based on the taxpayers “right” to choose how their children are educated and talks about the efficiency and the viability of the economics involved in generating a skilled workforce
How to improve the K-12 education system in the United States of America has been a very discursive issue over the past few decades which have caused many debates and discussions. While researching on this topic I discovered a couple of effective ways to improve this system from various publishers and authors explaining the solutions on how we can improve the educational system as we can clearly see that other countries K-12 systems have improved drastically over the past years such as the Canada, France, Austria and Ireland and that America is below average when it comes to education. The publishers mainly focus on discussing and evaluating the important methods to create a better system in the United States by relating it to the factors and achievements of the current system. My main focus in this essay is to outline the factors on how to improve education by relating it to five different educational sources that I have found within different publishers and websites. By this method we can easily spot how each publisher has a diverse idea on refining this current generation’s schooling. (http://educationnext.org/whystudentsinsomecountriesdobetter/)
Throughout history is easy to see the discourses used and how they effected the students in schools. History shows that the veiws of scoiety especailly those in which held power to change or influence schools largly decided in whcih discourse a school operated as. In the 1850's to 1900's history shows that schools mainly operated under the discourses of academic rationlism and social and economic effeciency placing great importance of producing student that had the intelectual and cognitve skills to benifit and better society. Leaving the students directly subject to school practrices and often leaving them without a voice in how they are educated. It wasn't untill the 1970's to the early 2000's did change start to occur with some foccus shone onto creating a voice for students with the creation of student councils though minor it lead the way of implenting more approaches to child centered and social reconstructive discourse in education.
Ofsted (2002, p11) found the most successful primary schools, scoring highly in English, mathematics and science, offered a rich curriculum, including “the humanities, physical education and the arts”. This contributed greatly to developing pupils’ imagination, creativity, self-confidence and “a positive attitude towards school”.
It is important to note that it is a right for the children to have a quality education. In this aspect, reasonable learning environments are a critical factor contributing to children education. All parents want their children to have an access to quality and better education. In the quest for such, parents always seek learning environments with competent teachers and better learning facilities. It is therefore, common to see parents always having a choice to make between taking their children to public schools, private school or have the children taught at home. Different opinion about home schooling and public school has recently been a subject of contention. Either way, the two forms of learning should offer the learning child with a better education. Nevertheless, each of the two forms of learning environments should be supported by valid arguments as discussed below.
“No parents beyond this point” – this apparently normal phrase conveys much more than just telling the parents not to pass certain points to the interior of a school. It is, on the contrary, reflecting the internalised ideology that signifies the dichotomy between school and the outside world (Vincent, 1996c) .
Doing the weekly readings and watching the videos, my mind exploded with possibilities for change - not unlike Raphael’s “brain popp[ing] open” (Senge, 2012, p. 64). Senge brings to our attention that schools were organised due to the necessity of the industrial age. However he also states that it’s time to move on from this out-dated mode, as i...