Explanatory Synthesis Paper
The learning processes in various aspects equip students with acquisition, knowledge and skills. This can be in form of different methodologies, but the focus remains on enlightening the students. To achieve this, there is need for ‘an education system with a success chance for all students’ Innovation is one aspect that can drive a nation to great heights. Having high implications from education, it is just important for any government to have an education system that prepares students for competitiveness in the changes faced in the current economies.
Every nation’s future relies on education. However, the mode of education is what determines the level of productivity a nation realizes, economic growth, the true commitment and involvement of the labor force in a nations development. Economic revolutions take place every now and then, and preparing students for competitiveness for the changing job market in a creative and practical manner remains vital. Imagination is what spices up innovation and that holds the future of a nation in its realm of development and competitiveness with other economies. The American government holds its improved pedagogy system in high esteem, because it has outgrown the banking learning concepts, and ventured into interactive, student centered, communicative learning, that prepares the students for their future (Office of the press secretary).
Enculturation is the process of learning through which one puts into practice any crude idea learnt to conform to required cultural or social norms (Guterson, 153). Enculturation may lack the literacy aspect required by the modern student. It however still gives the learner an opportunity to get some ideas in regard to how thing have always been done. It almost evolves into the progeny of the earlier formulated prodigy of lecturing with teachers assumed as the most knowledgeable in the process. The early learning processes had their social and cultural attachments that had to be followed and emulated by all they construed. It holds no theories, memorization, calculation or such kind of fixed learning processes of the classroom education. This kind of learning is almost effortless, natural and majorly required the learner to emulate his predecessors to remain within the norms of the society Guterson, 155). This learning process was apt for the traditional world, where there was little exposure to dangerous activities, like those that the free style learning gets modern children as addictions and accidents.
It gives limited room for students participatory involvement in the learning process. This fixed learning style blocks out any possible room for creativity. It is a system that the lecturers used to give their students insight of what they learned before, expecting the students to follow up in the same footsteps through memorization. It lacks explorative aspects necessary for opening up a student’s creativity for global economic revolutions of current and future times.
Expansive research on education, biochemistry, technology and economies help in devising of education systems that would produce students with enough ideas and skills. These are the skills that the modern world requires, to protect the planet, improve security, and expand opportunities in the job market (Office of the press secretary). Preparing students for the future takes all forms of motivation both internal and external combined. When families combine their efforts with teachers in helping their children to excel in class work, it just gives a proper platform for their future. This is the only way through which dropping graduate levels can be conquered. It is high time that the education system stopped focusing on extrinsic motivational concepts that leave students confused after enjoying all the PR and fame of winning math exams in school and having no practical edge attached to it for the job market (Office of the press secretary). When the intrinsic learning processes stay in place, a student has the chance of exercising discipline in the study process making any excellence accountable (Kohn, 271).
Teaching methods ought to be adjusted from the long time depository teaching methods where teachers merely poured out what is thought necessary for students to memorize. This undermines the authorities of knowledge, transformation and creativity. It reduces the questioning nature of humans in regard to the search of information for improvement (Freire). This seriously brings about a negative impact in the inquiry process of education as it limits itself to the knowledge of lecturers making students to assume a relatively ignorant stance.
Affordability of education is one other thing that provides a platform for students to participate competitively in the education field. Every child deserves a chance for accessing education and meeting their expectations in life through it. This is because education ought to be a transforming process. The alienation of past education processes deserve elimination to give students a chance of participation in the education process in a more interesting and palatable way (Freire). Using the oppressive educating processes promote dominance over the students as they are never given a chance to contradict the lecturers dictions. Mutual humanization of the learning process triggers the thinking of students making them to exercise their creative potentials. It transforms learning from teacher depository form to student teacher partnership. Participation is promoted and learning becomes an exciting process to captivate the interest of the learner liberating him from oppression. This is much because human life only gains meaning when there is chance for communication (Freire).
Works Cited
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Continuum Books. 1993.
Guterson, David. Family Matters, Why Home Schooling Makes Sense. San Diego, NY: Harcourt Brace and Company. 1993.
Kohn, Elfie. Punished by rewards, the trouble with Gold stars, Incentive Plans A’s and other Bribes. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1993: 271
Office of the press secretary. Remarks by the president in state of union address. Washington, DC: The White House. 25, January, 2011.
