Less Is More: Education for Uncertain Times

Autor/in	Pigott, Julian
Titel	Less Is More: Education for Uncertain Times
Quelle	In: Globalisation, Societies and Education, 20 (2022) 3, S.251-261 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Pigott, Julian)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-7724
DOI	10.1080/14767724.2021.1882956
Schlagwörter	Elementary Secondary Education; Educational Objectives; Role of Education; Global Approach; Technology; Economic Development; Education Work Relationship; National Curriculum; Higher Education; Costs; Educational Improvement; Educational Change; Basic Skills; Competence; Elective Courses + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Bildungsauftrag; Globales Denken; Technologie; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Cost; Kosten; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Bildungsreform; Basic skill; Grundfertigkeit; Kompetenz; Elective course; Wahlkurs
Abstract	How are children to prepare for an era in which work can be outsourced anywhere in the world, university graduates compete with computers and robots for jobs, and in which any number of other, unforeseeable social and economic trends may transpire? Popular discourses on educational reform talk of the need for schools and colleges to produce more flexible, creative, and analytic learners through 'forward-looking' diversification of the curriculum and technology use. In this article I argue that schools should in effect do less: Fundamental competences such as literacy and numeracy, and engagement with history, ideas, and the arts ought to be the goals of primary and secondary education. Elective classes in high school should offer more specialised, elective courses. A sufficiently motivated and capable minority can pursue such interests in higher education, but for the majority there should be no shame in departing formal education for the 'real' world much sooner. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01