*I originally created these posts for the micro-blogging education site Staffrm, which shut down mid-2017. I wanted to re-share these early forays into the blogging world but have not edited any of these posts from their original form. *
#corevalues Yesterday I was lucky enough to attend a lecture by Professor Howard Stevenson (@hstevenson10) from the University of Nottingham. As I’m sure many of you do, I enjoy lectures that get me thinking. He began with the simplest of questions: What is education for? Now if you’re reading this then the chances are you know that despite the simplicity of the question, the answer is far from straightforward and can be answered in a myriad of ways depending on your perspective. Certainly, it’s not the first time I’ve heard this question posed, especially at a policy level but since then I’ve not been able to stop thinking about it. I have several questions buzzing around in my head at the moment, and in this short blog post I’m not even going to try and get into any discussion around how I might answer them (although please feel free to offer any thoughts in the comments). Here are a selection of the questions I’ve been asking myself since then: - What IS education for? - What are my core values? - How does this impact what I do day to day in the classroom? - What are the implications of my values on what I prioritise in the classroom? - Would my pupils know what is important to me? - What happens when policy challenges our values? And finally: - How does what, and how, I teach align with what I believe the purpose of education to be?
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