Curriculum Essay

South Korean Education: The Immobility it creates Introduction: The South Korean education system provides exceptional teaching, academic support, and competition. The largest factor, however, isn 't one of these things. It is how much hard work each student spends outside of the school day on their academics, that sets them apart from other countries. The influences and high focus on their study habits and the additional private tutoring that they are expected to take part in, is what I do not…

Liberal education is often incorporated into universities’ undergraduate programs. It is an approach to learning that prepares individuals for complexity, diversity and change. Liberal education curriculum provides learning in multiple disciplines and also offers an in-depth study of a chosen major. Undergraduate programs inforce this broad education with general education courses that require me to remain open to new experiences, ideas and people. Liberal education encourages me to think beyond…

Critical Reflections 1. Reflection/Differentiation 1. When completing other practicum experiences at university I realised there is so much information to be absorbed from the classroom experience. I realised the importance of documenting throughout the practicum experience drawing special attention to key strategies or methods which may be beneficial to me in the future. Research suggests that reflective methods such as journaling, role modelling, use of questions, and critical incidents help…

Plato’s famous allegory of the cave symbolizing levels of education originates in The Republic. In this allegory, Plato details the progression one should make through education. In his preferred idea of education, those imprisoned in the cave are incapable of forming thoughts or ideas themselves because all they know are the shadows on the wall. As these prisoners are able to see their surroundings, they become accustomed to the light of the fire. When they are no longer prisoners in the cave,…

It could be argued that the conclusion of scholars pertaining to the positive influence of entrepreneurial activities on countries’ economies induce knowledge about entrepreneurial activities in todays’ fluid economy to become subjects of interest to all stakeholders (government, scholars, policy makers, consumers and so on). This entrepreneurial activities being talked about is as a result of increased entrepreneurial intention that is, the inclination towards not being dependent on current…

College Nightmare In life, people come across challenging obstacles when trying to achieve their goals. College, like life, has a variety of challenges that appear in students’ pathways to their goals. For most college students that are just starting out in the basic classes, such as English 101, problems can arise due to classes being much harder than the prior high school classes the students are used to. Mrs. Fox-Angerer’s class is hard because it has an online portion, it creates stress, and…

This semester of class in Religion 275 has genuinely challenged me, pushed me to think and learn in a more intellectual manner, and has helped me grow as a debater and as a writer. We’ve wrestled with the wide variety of topics in Gadamer’s Truth and Method, we’ve talked about culture and diversity with Voltaire, we’ve dissected the idea of enlightenment with Hume and Kant, and we’ve touched on religion and the value of a liberal education in our last few texts. However, the topic that I have…

After the introduction of the Productive Pedagogies model in Queensland, the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education and Training commissioned two of its developers to use this as a basis for creating a coherent model of pedagogy which could be used on a school-wide basis in NSW. Associate Professor James Ladwig and Professor Jennifer Gore devised the Quality Teaching Model (QTM), which can be applied across all key learning areas, from Kindergarten through to Grade 12 (Killen, 2016).…

Sanford Ungar argues the importance that a liberal arts degree holds today in America to those who are skeptic in his article, “The New Liberal Arts.” There are several points Ungar disproves. Ungar states that the job market was tough to crack into among all majors. Liberal arts have nothing to do with politics and can’t be related to democratic ideology according to Ungar. Several institutions that provide secondary education have liberal arts degrees which gives several opportunities for…

Eighty percent of employers think every student should acquire broad knowledge in the liberal arts (Power of Liberal Arts, 2013). Students in today’s society are formed to a “one-size-fits-all” learning system. With this system present in schools, students are slowly, but surely, becoming deprived of an open-minded, creative train of thought. The lack of arts programs in schools has led to an overall decrease in performance and quality intellectual thinking, while also placing art students at a…