The Importance Of Dehumanization In Education

Teachers are dehumanized from the fear of low student achievement. Therefore, teachers are subjected to higher levels of regulation from the government. Regulations in education is important to the contributing factors of failing educators. They suffer from restrictions, regulations, the very format of teaching itself, as well as Narration Sickness. To Paulo Freire students suffer from Narration Sickness as they listen repeatedly to the teachers and their nonchalant teachings. Teachers however, suffer from Narration Sickness too, but in the form of structure. Their regulations are placed on them by the district and state, which end up all too similar to the previous regulations, but are less satisfying as the new regulations are simply too …show more content…
Teachers are restrained from showing their humanity, they can not talk about their political views because of influencing children, in public schools they are not suppose to share religious beliefs, or talk about their personal lives in length. The restrictions placed on teachers are in short restricting. An individual-human at one point taught another, therefore becoming a teacher. The profession of teaching is the source of education; this is where schools begins, from a teacher teaching. Schools form from there and then districts and finally the beginning of the end. Teachers who work in bad districts, or go on strike are used in media as focal points. Individuals becomes the mass and those who are taught as a mass are then seen as the individual. Media portrays teachers as the cause of trouble-them alone. The profession may have been caused by the act they are named after, but the dehumanization of these people began with discriminatory, or pre-judged views of the individual. The individual is not the mass, but a saying such as “those who can-do-and those who can’t-teach,” is the beginning of the downfall of such a noble position and the dehumanization of the teaching profession. People who dedicate their lives to make other lives better are seen as failures. Since such a career is dehumanized it is understandable when those in the profession choose not to teach, but teachers live by standards, state and federal. Common core is nationwide, and school standards learn to spread. In the media news is news, but that does not make it the whole story-as there is “-three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the truth.” A teacher has their side as the media has theirs and the students theirs. Teachers are told what to teach is the final answer however, despite the media not always portraying the situation as