My journey through Graduate School to earn a Masters of Art in Education. I was on track to become a teacher, but now everything has changed, and I'm on the job hunt with a Bachelor's in Liberal Arts and a Master's in Education with no teaching certificate.

 
This class was the one I was most apprehensive about before coming to classes. It seemed that it would be the froo-froo feel good teacher stuff that wouldn't hold up in the classroom. Thankfully the class will become a lot more interesting and will focus on the metaphysics of education and the role of schools in the community they live in.

We started by examing an article from Sept. 11 1994 about France's nation-wide education department banning hijabs, a scarf worn by Moslem girls, in their schools. The reasons given were all social and political, not one objection was made on the grounds that the hijabs were disruptive. There were, in short, no pedagogical reasons for the banishment. The main lesson of the day was that we can't understand what goes on in a school until we understand the context of the school.

We also got a brief history of education and it's purpose in society.
posted by Josh English at 6/24/2003 04:10:00 PM