Testing Times in the Classroom: Challenges of 21st Century Education
Challenge the way you think about the key issues affecting education today.
Are schools too focussed on assessments? Is education just about profit? Does the classroom affect children’s creativity? These are some of the questions that surround education in the present day.
On this course, you will discuss these questions in depth and understand some of the recent major changes in education. You will explore a range of key concepts, including how education might now be considered a business and the link between education and economic growth. You will reflect on your own schooling experiences as well as look at possible educational alternatives for the future.
What topics will you cover?
- What education means in an era where assessment rules and where big data and key performance indicators are key.
- In what ways education is now routinely linked to economic progress.
- Whether the purpose of education has changed in the 21st century.
- What positive alternatives exist to challenge dominant instrumental thinking? How have these been enacted and how can we learn from them in our own educational thinking?
- Whether education can be considered as a business or corporate activity?
- Other visions of education including social justice.
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