There are many ways in which people learn, some people learn more individually while others learn in more of a collaborative environment. While people learn in more personal ways the brain works in two main ways; top-down and bottom-up. In top-down learning scenarios, people know that there is something that they are working for to complete the mission at hand. In bottom-up learning scenarios, where there is some stimulus which helps people influence what they are looking at. Education systems across the United States still do not understand how people learn in different ways because for most schools in the United States still teach in standard ways. Cathy Davidson discusses this point in her essay, “Project Classroom Makeover,” of how school …show more content…
Davidson’s essay discusses another tool that education systems abuse is the use of hierarchies but is discussed with more depth in Susan Faludi’s essay “The Naked Citadel.” In Faludi’s essay, she discusses how schools with more concealed rituals over utilize hierarchies because of the false sense of power the people in power feel. The presence of hierarchies can be found throughout Steven Johnson’s essay, “The Myth of the Queen Ant.” In Johnson’s essay, he examines how different populations ranging from ants to cities and even different computer programs work with each other and how most of the time hierarchies are not the solution because people learn in different ways where order sometime doesn’t matter. It is impossible for bottom up processing to be brought into hierarchies because in hierarchies’ people who are at the bottom of the order do not have any say and cannot change the perception the group has. The only way that people at the bottom of the ladder can help push new ideas forward is by getting together as a group to change the ruling …show more content…
Hierarchies can be seen well throughout the past and have not worked as well as they have been believed they would work. These hierarchies are still seen the world today in Faludi’s essay she discusses how the hierarchies in the Citadel have been powerful and still have some power. There are many hierarchies that are seen throughout the Citadel, which are only present because of the sense of power that the members believe they have and the closed security of the Citadel itself. Per one former knob (freshmen), “the upper classmen, ‘would go out and get drunk and they would come home and haze, and you just hoped they didn’t come into your room’” (Faludi 85). While these upperclassmen would haze the “knobs” they had no real right to abuse them. In the Citadel, there are only a few ways that the people lower parts of the hierarchy. People on the bottom of the order at the Citadel can only gain a say in the system as they get older or it they stand up for themselves (however standing up for yourself can usually lead towards more hazing). While these hierarchies are seen in a limited place there are still slight hierarches seen throughout the education system, which is seen throughout Davidson’s essay. In Davison’s essay, we see that the main use of hierarchies in the education is set forth by standardization. Davidson even states, “The formal education most of us experienced- and which
Both Ronald Morrish and Craig Seganti have been educators for many years and have subsequently developed their theories over many years of teaching. Both believe that it’s important first to establish the belief in students that the educator has the authority and is in command. Morrish and Seganti both also stress the importance of establishing rules and teaching students how to comply with those rules. For instance, Morrish and Seganti assert that it’s critical to practice appropriate classroom rules. Both also agree that it’s important only to make rules that you’re absolutely willing to enforce and that students should not be involved in creating these rules. Moreover, Morrish and Seganti also have similar perspectives regarding how self-esteem
That broader conception of school allowed those schools to better support the students and address social issues that prevent students from accessing their full potential. This conceptual shift can only be spurred by a clear vision of “good education”—which then caused an improvement in their community’s education
Between the authors Barber and Tannen, there exists a consensus that education today has been shaped by the events of history. The sources of history differ along with the conclusions they drawn from th...
Mike Rose's I Just Wanna Be Average essay sheds light on troubled youth within the public school system. It makes you long for the days of American pride and service. Students placed in “tracks'; to utilize overcrowded and faulty test systems. Identity lost due to poor instruction and lack of motivation. The influx of shattered images brought forth by the “Report of the French Commission on American Education, 1879'; reminds us of a time long ago when education was for every child, not select few. Stoic instructors molding young minds in the quest to advance America as a whole. Civic pride and duty were influencing every aspect of American education.
Education was designed to take people and transform them and teach them how to live a better life by whatever standards. Despite this overall goal, socially, people have been continued to replicate the lives of their parents or upbringing, becoming a problem for lower income families. This constant duplicating of lifestyles among people in lower social classes is called Social Reproduction. Lisa Delpit introduced a theory as to why this reproduction of social classes happens involving a “culture of power”. This involves a clear power divide between the students and administration including “the power of the teacher over the students; the power of the publishers of textbooks and of the developers of the curriculum to determine the view of the
Worse yet, it turns them into "containers," into "receptacles" to be "filled" by the teachers. The more completely she fills the receptacles, the better teacher she is. The more meekly the receptacles permit themselves to be filled, the better students they are (Freier 216). It seems like these great authors such as Walker Percy and Paulo Freier criticize the role educators play in the education system and urge students to break free from the conformity of the way subjects are taught in school and truly experience them through our own dialectical approach.
The article titled “Order in the Classroom” goes in depth into the education system; its flaws, strengths, and what needs mending. Author Neil Postman, an educator of New York University includes his perspective on the education system. One remark by contributor William O’Connor, explains that the education in our schools is not inferior, the schools have been getting inferior students (Postman, 309). The students are not inferior in our education system. If we were to look in depth at some of the issues we hold, maybe that mindset would change. What makes us inferior is the fact that we do not teach our children things they need to know before beginning school, we have a horribly structured school day, we believe that socioeconomic status will change a student’s learning and ability and we believe in punishing students who cause disturbances. These are all very low and hurtful perspectives to hold when discussing education.
In a highly structured and economics-driven world, the educational system may be viewed as a machine designed to churn out future workers and employees. Like the fast-food industry, education has been standardized in an attempt to provide the comforts of efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control. In our aptly named McDonaldized society, aspects as important as quality are sacrificed in lieu of speed and profit. As far as education is concerned, however, this attempt to systemize and order something as complex as learning proves futile and detrimental to the basic tenet of enlightenment.
“Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics” -Leighann (Lord) Leighamm Lord is a comedian, but when it comes to the education of children, she takes it very seriously and it is not so much a joke to her. Children are the future, and giving them the best education available is crucial to the future. Making decisions in the educational system would not only better the future, but the children’s future. These changes of segregating classrooms, will give the children a better working environment, to improve test scores, and academic advancements. Research shows that segregating classrooms would be a great step to a successful future; however, conflicting arguments to the negative and positive impacts of segregating classrooms to consider.
Zuckerman, M. B. (2005, October 10). Classroom Revolution. U.S. News & World Report. p. 68. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.
In “What’s Wrong with Schools,” Casey Banas uses the experiences of Ellen Glanz, a high school social studies teacher to express how different students and teachers feel about schooling. Ellen Glanz chooses to improve her teaching by pretending to be a student and sitting in on several classes and what she finds in the typical classroom includes students doing the bare minimum, disinterest, cheating, detachment, the list goes on and on. I agree with Ellen Glanz in that this separation between educators and students causes a great amount of passivity. Unfortunately, these types of circumstances in classroom settings are becoming more and more typical.
The English edition of The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five lessons in Intellectual Emancipation consists of 148 pages. It was written by Jacques Ranciere and translated by Kristin Ross. It was published by the Stanford University Press in 1991. The main point of Ranciere is that anyone can teach what one doesn’t know and that everyone has equal intelligence. He tries to convince the readers by giving the examples of Joseph Jacotot’s experiments and by showing that the arguments against the topic have to real materiality.
Kohn, Alfie. A. The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards." Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Print.
Going to school and getting a great education is important for a successful future in today’s world. Years ago, many children did not go to school and many young adults opted to work instead of attending college. In today’s society, gaining a high level of education is almost always mandatory for many jobs. There are many changes being done to the education system along with new items and ways of teaching in the classroom. There is a growing amount of changes in the classroom such as technology, teaching time, teaching styles, and freedom of space.
There has been hierarchy all the time in the society. Assume education equality is feasible, hierarchy is a normal and not going to complicate egalitarian of education. According to Ho, “ The culture of smartness is not simply a quality of Wall Street, but a currency, a driving force productive of both profit accumulation and global prowess.” (167) In this case, the culture of smartness serves as a hierarchy pyramid, the brightest people are the ‘ cream of the crop ’ on the top of the pyramid. The most population working place, investment banks in Wall Street, chooses smartest people to fit in it (bank) . This recruiting process is quite normal. Despite a obvious example of hierarchy - Princeton and Harvard are on the top of Ivy League schools. When bankers come from NYC to Princeton to recruit potential employees, bankers ranked students roughly from the most desirable group to the least. Those actions indicate people are living around different forms of hierarchy. Under this situation, individuals are supposed to learn in many ways and devote themselves to society in their own stratum. Davidson mentioned a green-haired girl in her article, “The girl with the green hair has special skills that shows up nowhere on her compulsory EOG state tests (...) and yet she has a special and valued ability that cannot be replaced by a computer program.” As the education in this girl’s classroom is not equal at all, because this girl is not interested in that which is taught. This kind of teaching and imparting knowledge is not a egalitarian of education but a form of false impression and time waste. A hierarchy may take shape automatically from top scored students to lower grade students. However, this girl devote herself into painting which she is good at and can bring happiness to her classmates other than listening classes. She released her potential abilities and play a positive role even she is at the middle or low