Challenges of 21st Century Education
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
University of ExeterDescription
Challenge the way you think about the key issues affecting education today
Are schools too focussed on assessments? Is education just about profit? Does the classroom affect children’s creativity? These are some of the questions that surround education in the present day.
On this course, you will discuss these questions in depth and understand some of the recent major changes in education. You will explore a range of key concepts, including how education might now be considered a business and the link between education and economic growth. You will reflect on your own schooling experiences as well as look at possible educational alternatives for the future.
What topics will you cover?
- What education means in an era where assessment rules and where big data and key performance indicators are key.
- In what ways education is now routinely linked to economic progress.
- Whether the purpose of education has changed in the 21st century.
- What positive alternatives exist to challenge dominant instrumental thinking? How have these been enacted and how can we learn from them in our own educational thinking?
- Whether education can be considered as a business or corporate activity?
- Other visions of education including social justice.
Who will you learn with?
Dr Alexandra Allan is the Director of Education in the Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter. Her research has focused on a range of topics relating to equality and diversity in education
I am experienced teacher and teacher educator and lead the MA Education online programme at the University of Exeter.
I’m Professor of Education at the University of Exeter. My work focuses upon education policy and the impact of large scale educational reform upon those who work and study in educational institutions
Who developed the course?
The University of Exeter is a Russell Group university. It combines world-class research with very high levels of student satisfaction.
What Will I Learn?
- Reflect on your own educational experiences and consider how these might relate to contemporary concerns.
- Describe some of the major changes which have occurred in education in recent years and also identify thoughts, ideas and practices which might have remained the same/similar over time.
- Discuss forms of alternative education which are practiced in current education systems.
- Investigate some of the affordances of technology and creativity in education.
- Explore possibilities for social justice in the current education system.
- Evaluate a range of perspectives to identify some alternative answers to the big questions asked about contemporary and future education.
Topics for this course
Welcome
Welcome to the course
Introduction to the course00:00:50
Why does education need to change?
Meet the team
What does education look like where you are?
What are the big issues?
What next?
What if?
It's good educational material for me. The speaker speaks clearly. The material is well organized and easy to understand.
What is the link between education and economic development? As the economy gets better and education gets more and more expensive, can we make the most of it to make education better? This is a question that every educator should reflect upon.
What does education mean at a time when assessment rules, big data and key performance indicators are key? This question has been giving me a headache. Times have changed and so has education.
It's a great course and education is really too profitable these days. The course talks about is education only for profit? Does the classroom affect children's creativity? These are some of the problems facing education today. Great.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course is for anyone with an interest in education, including teachers, students, and parents. This course will also be of interest to an international audience. No prior qualifications in education are required.