Compulsory education

SECTION 1 The children's act 1908 was introduced to regulate children's lives. It gradually outlawed child labour, set out conditions under which a child can be removed from the home. Preventing cruelty towards children and making primary education compulsory. The next significant change wasn’t until the childcare act 1991. This is to promote welfare of children and outlines what is to be done to protect the child in emergencies. It refers to supervision of preschool services. It also makes…

a strong advocate on education for all and has been instrumental in the implementation and the passing of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). He was the former secretary to Government of India (GOI) as well as the former secretary of the Human Resource Department (HRD) and later on a Visiting Professor, Centre for Public Policy Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore India. He held the post of Chief of Bureau of District Primary Education Programme (DPEP), Elementary Education and Planning and…

School vs. Education The public schools today in America are not educating their students but schooling them. Schooling them to memorize test answers instead of understanding the moral concept of what they’re learning. “My schooling was about facts and figures, rather than understanding and moral formation”, says Darrow Miller when looking back on his reflection on his own education which supports my claim. Passing standardized testing today has become the main goal of teachers and students…

Arts education and Australian National Curriculum had listed the Arts as a compulsory subject area in Australian schooling. Integrating the Arts into Primary context benefit children’s learning in many ways. In 2002, a report by the Arts Education Partnership suggested that student exposed to music, drama, dance and visual art are often more proficient at reading, writing, and math (Artis, 2013). In order to further…

media is an area that educators are often weary of tapping into as a resource to facilitate learning. This article examines the importance and implications of using social media in the classroom. Whilst is mostly focusses on social media in higher education, it is also applicable in a secondary school setting, particular in the senior years. With students that have been raised with the internet, smart phones and other technological devices, it is important to integrate social media software into…

my homeland, St. Lucia our local or traditional dress would be worn on special occasion, while our American clothing is very transparent on a daily basis. Furthermore, as the US has become innovative to assist the young and old to access higher education from any part of the world, whether it is day or night so is the colleges in my country working on policies and procedures that mimic the US platform. What’s more, the movement of the LGBT is becoming more apparent on the island after…

The Federal Role in Education Today: School Curriculum and Testing When our government system was first founded, the framers wanted to make sure that we would have an effective and structured government. They knew having one source of power could result in tyranny so they decided to split the power between the national and state governments. Recently, there has been speculation about whether the government’s federal power has been exceeding the state’s authority and limiting their…

that means, to be proficient in two different languages. However, it should be present that this concept is complex. More concretely, according to Cohen (1975), bilingual education is the use of two or more languages as a means of instruction in a part of the school curriculum or in all. According to this author, bilingual education will be the teaching “in” two languages and not the teaching “of” two one or another language. And of course, it is important to highlight that several studies…

approach to problems I learned over the years as a student and Tutor has helped develop my philosophical approach to education as a collective effort where intellectual diversity and critical thinking is respected. I think in retrospect at the time I had the opportunity to teach my first class. As a new graduate in Nigeria, I was mobilized for the National Youth Service Program, a compulsory one year national service, where new graduates are posted to different regions other than theirs with the…

nonetheless, there were changes for the better. They included systems to end slavery, laws to stop racism, and rulings to protect women’s rights. Education and schooling contributed to the way in which civility was established. Parents were initially, required to teach their children obedience to religion and government. Consequently, the responsibility of education by a parent or master was neglected for a child to learn a trade rather than becoming…