CHALLENGES IN EDUCATION

Education is formally a challenge for – Parents, Students and Teachers.  Each has their own perception of the same challenge.  Each argue that their view is correct while none take the consideration of the protagonist in the scene ‘the student’.

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Parents feel teachers are not doing enough.   Teachers feel that students and their parents are not doing enough while students feel teachers and parents are making their life difficult. Whose is at fault?

A short survey from those directly involved in schooling is as follows

Education system refers to the collaboration of various systems that include – Curriculum, Management, Teaching and Parenting.  The members involved in these systems should work towards the common goal of ‘achieving learning’ rather than ‘identify the flaws of each other’.  The right question to ask will we ‘How to ensure the working of all these systems towards achieving learning?' 

Building a network is easier said than done.  The intricacies of human mind play havoc in building such networks.   Attributes like Individualism, Ego, Jealousy, prominence and Identification - rules in networks leading to doubtfulness, distrust and non-participatory attitudes within them. 

To overcome such detrimental thoughts, building positive, keeping an open mind towards learning and performance becomes mandatory.  The trust building process in networks is essential to lay foundation towards a successful learning process. Networking is not about all acting as ‘single unit’.  Networking is about various units approaching from different dimension with the focus of ‘achieving learning’.  It is about setting boundaries and providing scope for the learner to understand the norms within the set boundaries towards learning.  Parents and management should support teacher in their effort towards learner achievement and teachers need to openly communicate about the learner performance variation to both parents and management.  Confidentiality is crucial from all directions on learner direction.  Achieving everything without confidentiality can lead to loss of trust from the learner.

Learning is more about the intermediary process between input and output.  However, it is still not sure as to what input initiate the right learning to deliver the expected output.  That is why, it is all the more important to focus on working together rather than as a mutual fault finders in ‘achieving learning’