Category: Education
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Leadership in Education – Intent and Legitimate Power
When we genuinely care for someone we act in their interest. Then we are not using them for our purpose, however noble that may be.
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Power and Control in the Classroom
To understand why students respond positively to the authority of some teachers and challenge others, we need to explore the difference between Power and Control.
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The Winner Takes it All… by Yusuf Abdulrahman
Learners soon discover that in order to be considered significant by the system, they require top-grades, and their attention is quickly shifted from discovery and creativity to the acquisition of certificates.
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The Malevolence of Current Education
The education systems were not intended to grow, empower, or unleash human potential, but to prepare children for the job market.
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Cultivating Willing Teachers
How do schools create the conditions where the majority of their teachers come to work to make a contribution to children’s lives and not just to collect a paycheck?
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Compulsion Cannot Lead to Learning
Real learning does not take place under compulsion, and this is why the Care and Growth framework developed by Schuitema is the single most important intervention required in the education sector in this 21st Century.
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What Education Must Do For Our Youth
One of the most powerful motivators is a commitment to a cause that is bigger than one’s self interest. If educators cultivate the capacity to easily adopt such causes we will see a greater willingness in our youth to strive through adversity in pursuit of something truly noble.
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Changing Education Paradigms
Sir Ken Robinson offers an excellent talk on Education and how he thinks it should change. I feel we have a responsibility to keep the considerations like the one’s raised in this talk firmly in view as a society.
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Leadership in Education – Intent and Legitimate Power
When we genuinely care for someone we act in their interest. Then we are not using them for our purpose however noble that may be
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Why Do We Teach?
Instead of having schools where we slot children into boxes, we must create little islands of Care where each child is allowed to learn about himself.