The article Ian Tuttle wrote “Go Back To Class”, is a plea to Jefferson County students to educate themselves on the protest before taking action towards protesting the cause. In Tuttle’s three page article, he loses himself in his opinion based assumptions, and puts down students and teachers for managing to shut down schools in the Jefferson County area due to protesting against the new reform censorship in regards history curriculum. Ian feels strongly about his beliefs on why many students chose to walk out that day, these beliefs had the ability to shed a negative light on only the protesting students of Jefferson County. Quantz defines in the text that the ontology Homo economicus states that humans are self-interested animals, who involve
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Tuttle provides many examples of the lack of educational reasoning behind the students protest. In addition Ian also states that there may be other ways students can gain the education the newly implemented history curriculum now may lack. Essentialism had also stated that knowledge is gained through empirical study and common sense. (Sociocultural Studies in education, Richard A. Quantz page 79) On the latter, Ian gives examples in his text that follow the views of an Essentialist; “Maybe Jefferson County could start a foreign-exchange program to countries without the “essentials and benefits” of free enterprise system. This example would give student’s education through experience, rather than the Prennialist views of in school study. Although his examples of alternatives to the curriculum follow a different educational philosophy, Ian Tuttle’s article follows the want for students to be in the classroom to further their education more than gaining commonsense and experience in the world. Also if he followed Essentialism throughout the article he would be comfortable with students to protest; by protesting the students would gain knowledge through their experience on the streets of Jefferson County, rather than gaining knowledge through education gained in the
Tuttle provides many examples of the lack of educational reasoning behind the students protest. In addition Ian also states that there may be other ways students can gain the education the newly implemented history curriculum now may lack. Essentialism had also stated that knowledge is gained through empirical study and common sense. (Sociocultural Studies in education, Richard A. Quantz page 79) On the latter, Ian gives examples in his text that follow the views of an Essentialist; “Maybe Jefferson County could start a foreign-exchange program to countries without the “essentials and benefits” of free enterprise system. This example would give student’s education through experience, rather than the Prennialist views of in school study. Although his examples of alternatives to the curriculum follow a different educational philosophy, Ian Tuttle’s article follows the want for students to be in the classroom to further their education more than gaining commonsense and experience in the world. Also if he followed Essentialism throughout the article he would be comfortable with students to protest; by protesting the students would gain knowledge through their experience on the streets of Jefferson County, rather than gaining knowledge through education gained in the