EduResearch Matters October 28, 2024 by Mark Selkrig
n today’s educational climate, with its intense focus on raising standardised test scores, it seems like we have lost sight of nurturing the extensive human potentials of both our students and teachers. There is an ongoing fixation with individualised student-centred approaches, along with drilling basic competencies in reading, writing and maths. Approaches are increasingly narrowed to “teach to the test” to accommodate these high-stakes metrics. The need to develop foundational skills is necessary, although rigid, utilitarian approaches can be ideological and problematic in many ways .
This includes the risk of depleting our capacities for original creative thinking, empathetic cross-cultural understanding, ethical reasoning and collaborative problem-solving. We fail to cultivate the diverse cognitive, emotional and social capabilities if education becomes transactional.
Human beings can’t truly flourish and thrive if it’s just about prescribed knowledge, regurgitated on exams or for tests,
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