Alternative education

I have a question for the government of Hawaii. Why do I and 100’s of homeschoolers have to fight for the right to be homeschooled, this should not be a problem right now we are moving backwards instead of forwards in the homeschool movement. My mom has gone through this fight once in Singapore years ago and now you’re making her go through it again years later with her last kid that’s homeschooled.Some people homeschool because they’re military and they move around a lot, others like my own…

Education: Which method is better? One of the biggest decisions a parent has to make for their child is what method of education will benefit their child the most. Some parents think that their child will learn the most if they teach them themselves, but other parents are either working, or know that they do not have the ability to teach their child. Because students spend a good amount of time in school, it is extremely important for parents to choose a method of education that fits their child…

this is a common practice of “the banking concept” in effect. On the other end, according to hooks’s Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, this is an example of a “passive consumer”. Both authors are criticizing the education system in their pieces, Freire argues against traditional classroom methodology, whereas hooks argues that a rewarding education requires proactive students. In the present day, despite negative results, teachers dictating to students as the…

Dewey & Freire: An Experiential, Social Approach to Early Childhood Education When connecting the philosophical theories learned in class with my future pedagogical practices, I am naturally inclined to focus on those philosophers whose ideas resonated with me the most. As a believer that the purpose of education is to raise active members of society and that education can indeed change and improve our social system, I selected John Dewey and Paulo Freire as the two pillars of my teaching…

Homeschooling, also known as home education, involves the education of children at home instead of receiving education at a traditional private or public school. According to Bauman (2011), many students are schooled at home and the number in the United States is growing at 15 to 20 percent per year. It is a system in which parents prefer their children to be educated at home and argue that it is more beneficial for them. There are those who advocate homeschooling, while there are some skeptics…

progressive movement around the nation in which parents choose to educate their children at home instead of sending them to a traditional private or public school. It is heavily disputed whether or not homeschooling provides children with the necessary education needed to progress as an individual in modern day society. I believe that children need a real authentic school environment in order to thrive. Children aren’t only learning core subjects in school, but they’re also learning social…

that businesses offer a minimum of 52 weeks maternity leave, with 70% of wages paid. This ensures adequate time for the mother to bond with the infant and recuperate from pregnancy, while saving money to be spent on preschool later on. An alternative route to consider when aiming to increase birth rates by supporting working mothers involves offering lower-cost preschools. If the government and/or businesses do not support maternity leave reforms, lower-cost preschools ease the…

Guidance and virtue begins in the home. Many scholars and academics agree that kids learn from their parents more than any other they may encounter in their lives. Social skills, morals, and political beliefs all have one thing in common: they are directly related to home life. To try and teach key skills in school, like honesty or good virtues is really fanciful at the least. At most the idea is a concoction of lazy-parenting hoping to push it off on another source. So then, as some push for…

Cave” and Freire’s “The Banking Concept of Education”, the two authors focus on a similar topic: education and delusions. In Plato’s Allegory, Plato discusses a scenario where prisoners, except for one who escapes, are inside a cave that impairs their ability to view the outside world. His writing is an allegory discussing his views of education and false beliefs with the use of the cave and the prisoners. Freire discusses two different styles of education: the banking concept and the…

pursuit of happiness and contend that the liberty beholden by the above statement threatens a democratic education. In order to this, I will answer the following questions: What is a democratic education? How can a democratic education be achieved in a school? How does capitalism and neoliberalism threaten to destroy a democratic education? For the purpose of defining a democratic education, I now turn to Matthew Knoester who states, “in order to educate democratic citizens it is important…