EDST1000

• Society was always a collection of individuals. Modern governance only became thinkable when westerners changed from an unknown mob ruled by fear of power into a population on which data was collected in the 18th century. Social statistics created differences which allowed identity.
• Schools are primarily about education, not regulation.
• The structure of the school isn’t really that important to the education process. The mass school is an example of disciplinary society based upon continual surveillance, behaviour and close regulation of space and time.
• Conservative approach to education: Students are a blank state, their education should prepare them for work and transmit dominate values/beliefs/practices.

  Educators goal was to maintain social stability and protect the dominate order.
• Conservative Pedagogical practice:

  -Undisputed teacher authority

  -Passivity of students

  -Unproblematic Transmission of authorised knowledge (traditional way to do things).
• Conservative Strategies:

  -Direct rules and punishment

  -Note memorisation (facts, figures, etc).

  -Learning classic canons in author-centred ways.

  -Assessments on decontextualised tests on segregated content with right/ wrong answers
• Liberal approach to educaction: emphasises the importance of individuality and freedom of choice and should develop the potential of individuals for daily life.

  Students are seen as decision making individuals engaged in personal development for educators to promote and reward individual choice and excellence.
• Liberal Pedagogical practice: Teacher = leader and facilitator for active inquiry and emphasis on understanding. Personal expression, competition and individualism.
• Liberal Strategies:

  -Choice theory, individualism, minor recognition of alternate views

  -Individual reflection, teaching personal connections to content, student centred interpretation

  -Group work and discussion, inquiry into key principles to understand the progress of ideas

  -Assessments of subjective tasks allowing more creativity, achievement and reflection
• Critical approach to education: Aims to challenge the status quo and challenge the way education is currently delivered. It should create a better society and encourage students to identify injustice and take action.

  Students are citizens who can question society’s values and take action.
• Critical Pedagogical practice:

  -More democratic relations between teachers and students

  -Collaboration and idealogical critique

  -Educators facilitate student involvement in the co-creation of a more just/peaceful world
• Critical Strategies:

  -Rights or care based rules or class-policed codes

  -Students centred activism, role-playing and critical analysis

  -Different group perspectives on the subject

  -world context centred analysis of real world texts representation

  -Culturally specific activities/Aboriginal-English and higher expectations of outcomes

  -Assessments integrate context, skills and real - world change or action
• Post modern approach to education: Education is a social process that is influenced by social, political, economic, and cultural factors. It should demystify truth/reality and re-construct knowledge.

  Students are seen as cultural constructs and know this. Educators develop in students a critical opposition to the dominant cultures.
• Post modern Pedagogical practices:

  -Teacher = deconstructer

  -Multiple POV’s present and studied

  -Students co invent knowledge
• Post modern Strategies:

  -Contextually specific discipline

  -Any text can be used with theory, deconstructing texts, pluralist approach to subject areas

  -Experimental pastiche creations

  -Assessments challenge students to question meaning/ truth or co-create new realities.