Are You Educated? Or Have You Just Been Schooled?
What does it mean to educate someone? And should this awesome responsibility be left to schools? In his landmark book ‘The End of Education’, Neil Postman wrote about the difference between education and schooling and why this distinction matters. Decades later, where are we at with the work of ‘schooling’ young learners in Aotearoa New Zealand? I suggest schools have been forced into schooling children and young people because governments no longer trust teachers with the work of education. In part, this is because everyone has been to school, so they think they know what teaching is all about (especially because good teachers make teaching look deceptively easy). But does the shift from education to schooling to job-ready skills run the risk of turning us into an uneducated society?
Bio
Professor Joce Nuttall is Executive Dean in the Faculty of Education at the University of Canterbury. Joce’s research interests include the initial and continuing education of educators and educational leaders, and the development of strategies for system-level workforce capacity building in early childhood education and care. Her current research focuses on the experiences of migrant early childhood educators in the Asia-Pacific region and how to equip centres to fully mobilize their expertise.
Event
Tuesday 16 September, 6:30pm @Two Thumb Colombo, 380 Colombo Street, Sydenham 8023
Also speaking at this location at 8:00pm is Dr Simon Kingham
