Is there a potential problem being stored up for people if 'education' is tailored to fit into their cultural and personal preferences?
We live in such a cultural and diverse world, that it would be ignorant if we only learned about things which fit into our own personal preferences and culture.
Personally, I think we all need to be educated and have a basic knowledge of other different cultures and backgrounds. I think its important to know about other cultures, not just your own, as in todays world, our society is so multi-cultural that we need to know about them, theres no escaping it. In later life when we are in the woking world we will need to be educated in more than things that just apply to ourselves.
I think many problems could arise if education was tailored for the individual. In some cases, I can understand why tailoring around individual needs would benefit the individual greatly, for example, the way things are culturally percieved to different people would be best adapted to their preferences.
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I completely agree with you :D tailoring education around certain communities will create problems in society. I my opinion it will produce rather ignorant members of society who are oblivious to what I happening in other parts of the country/world.
ReplyDeleteAnd referring to one of the questions on the task list “should education stretch a person?” I thought that it should in all aspects, but by the tailored education system this will only be evident in certain aspects covered in the education system of that community.
think of how racist our country would be if we only learnt about our own cultures! And what would happen to minority groups? Would they be taught our culture, or their parent's culture?
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Prensky (who has stimulated all this debate) doesn't address content but delivery. If delivery is tailored to the student's preferences (as he suggests) what is the problem (indeed it there one?)
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