The prospects of global education reform
Derek Wenmoth,
Derek's Blog,
Jun 17, 2010
Does this diagram show 'what we already know' or does is it telling us what we are supposed to believe?
The wrong way to do anything is to take the six billion people on the planet and apply standards to them. This includes education. The idea that there is anything - anything - we want all six billion people to learn smacks of colonialism at best and fascism at worst. And this is just one of the problems I see with these 'building blocks'. Another is the idea that you "train" teachers. Another is the concept of "continuous improvement", a holdover from TQM that treats people as though they're never good enough. And more - what we have here is the technocrat's model of a global education system, but not one that would work with actual humans. What we need in education is not more leadership, but rather, less leadership.
The wrong way to do anything is to take the six billion people on the planet and apply standards to them. This includes education. The idea that there is anything - anything - we want all six billion people to learn smacks of colonialism at best and fascism at worst. And this is just one of the problems I see with these 'building blocks'. Another is the idea that you "train" teachers. Another is the concept of "continuous improvement", a holdover from TQM that treats people as though they're never good enough. And more - what we have here is the technocrat's model of a global education system, but not one that would work with actual humans. What we need in education is not more leadership, but rather, less leadership.
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