Education is an ever changing idea that encompasses a variety of things, one could even argue that it encompasses everything. It's represented in many different ways and means many different things to different people. To some its a place, physical, like a library, or ideal/virtual, like online blogs or classes. To others it is a process, building upon skills that one has, and developing on ideas that they've come to believe in whether this be formal or informal is not important. And to most, its a system, the system that we've come to rely on to teach ourselves and our children. But in defining education many people focus on the how, instead of the what, i.e. How we define/categorize education. This leaves the question open to many different interpretations instead of asking 'What is it?'.
As we can see from the variety of research topics that our class has chosen, education can be defined as a broad array of all its facets. Almost all things can be related back to it, if one takes the time to stop and consider what goes into a topic. Again, this is visible in the wide range of topics. Students linked education to sports, genocide/war times, geography, disabilities, finances, and technologies. Education links easily back to all of these topic and more because it is so all encompassing and ingrained in the way that we as individuals, and as a society, structure our lives. We live our lives to learn. I have a friend who claims that a day without learning something new, is a day wasted. He believes it to be true and strives to learn something every day, in this sense he is bolstering his own education (if only everyone was so driven), but looking at him, a college dropout construction worker, you'd never expect it.
Whether education is self driven or forced, its present and intrepid. Its been the constant in all of our lives since we were born and will continue to be present until the day that we die. Knowing that this definition of education is so broad, for the focus of a research question, I'll narrow down the topic to the institutions of education. I think its vital that there are people probing for new technologies and new methodologies that can be utilized and implemented in the future. That is where those who research education should focus. They should draw upon things that have happening in the past, programs and systems that have succeeded and format new ways of promoting and ingraining education into the lives of all people, whether they be rich or poor, learning disabled or enabled, Asian, black, white, or multiracial. Where will education take us in the future? By what means will learning be implemented? Will our systems withhold through technological changes, and adapt enough where the face of education will not change as much as some think?
Education is an ever changing idea that encompasses a variety of things, one could even argue that it encompasses everything. It's represented in many different ways and means many different things to different people. To some its a place, physical, like a library, or ideal/virtual, like online blogs or classes. To others it is a process, building upon skills that one has, and developing on ideas that they've come to believe in whether this be formal or informal is not important. And to most, its a system, the system that we've come to rely on to teach ourselves and our children. But in defining education many people focus on the how, instead of the what, i.e. How we define/categorize education. This leaves the question open to many different interpretations instead of asking 'What is it?'.
As we can see from the variety of research topics that our class has chosen, education can be defined as a broad array of all its facets. Almost all things can be related back to it, if one takes the time to stop and consider what goes into a topic. Again, this is visible in the wide range of topics. Students linked education to sports, genocide/war times, geography, disabilities, finances, and technologies. Education links easily back to all of these topic and more because it is so all encompassing and ingrained in the way that we as individuals, and as a society, structure our lives. We live our lives to learn. I have a friend who claims that a day without learning something new, is a day wasted. He believes it to be true and strives to learn something every day, in this sense he is bolstering his own education (if only everyone was so driven), but looking at him, a college dropout construction worker, you'd never expect it.
Whether education is self driven or forced, its present and intrepid. Its been the constant in all of our lives since we were born and will continue to be present until the day that we die. Knowing that this definition of education is so broad, for the focus of a research question, I'll narrow down the topic to the institutions of education. I think its vital that there are people probing for new technologies and new methodologies that can be utilized and implemented in the future. That is where those who research education should focus. They should draw upon things that have happening in the past, programs and systems that have succeeded and format new ways of promoting and ingraining education into the lives of all people, whether they be rich or poor, learning disabled or enabled, Asian, black, white, or multiracial. Where will education take us in the future? By what means will learning be implemented? Will our systems withhold through technological changes, and adapt enough where the face of education will not change as much as some think?
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