Facing Uncertainty in Education: Beyond the Harmonies of Eurovision Education

Autor/in	Todd, Sharon
Titel	Facing Uncertainty in Education: Beyond the Harmonies of Eurovision Education
Quelle	In: European Educational Research Journal, 15 (2016) 6, S.619-627 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-9041
DOI	10.1177/1474904116669731
Schlagwörter	Readiness; Student Development; Educational Policy; Educational Practices; Educational Change; Skill Development; Competency Based Education; Educational Objectives; Strategic Planning; Transitional Programs; Educational Trends; Foreign Countries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungspraxis; Bildungsreform; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Education; Competence; Competency; Competency-based education; Unterricht; Kompetenzorientierte Methode; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Bildungsentwicklung; Ausland
Abstract	One of the most pressing concerns identified in current European educational discourse is about the transitions of students from school to higher education and from educational institutions to the labour market. Government anxieties over the precariousness of the future has led to increasing regulation and measurement of "skills" and "competences" for students in an attempt to suture over these transitions. However, in doing so, policies risk further alienating and dehumanizing students in turning classrooms into testing zones and places of high risk assessment that pigeon-hole students into limited futures. I argue in this paper that if youth are to contribute meaningfully to a future that is, by definition, not something that is certain or knowable in advance, a more appropriate response will be to think about the kinds of sensibility that would help students orient themselves toward a changing and unpredictable world. This paper outlines how a project of facing uncertainty (what the poet John Keats referred to as "negative capability") actually shifts the terms upon which policies and curricular reform can be constructed. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01