Education For Tomorrow Analysis
The book “Education for Tomorrow”, written by Michael Risku and Letitia Harding and published by Sense Publishers in 2003, basically gives us a new perspective on the way we look at today’s education. This book is divided into five main parts with significant studies conducted in Europe, Canada, and mainly in the United States. Part I includes the introductory chapter while part II consists of four chapters discussing native and Western people’s gain and use knowledge in school and in daily life. The next two parts including two chapters talk about the education system in Western society and some disadvantages of the program that affect indigenous children at their school and at their home. Part V moves its focus to the bad effects of separating
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The European created boarding school to force Indian children to speak English, learn the culture of the white people, and drive away their native culture. Generations of indigenous people could not speak their mother language as it was banned in traditional schooling or use their sub-skills in the native land. Many of them were seen as ‘in between’ people as they could not adapt to the life of the white people and their own hometown around them.
Chapter 7, belonging to part VI, is continuity from Chapter 6; however, it gives a specific example of indigenous child' life from his early year to full-grown adulthood in his native environment and at his school. The English Language is a compulsory language in schools with a lot of written texts. Native American children could not speak English and their mother language well so that they failed to communicate with both societies. A generation felt embassy speak out their own thinking, they lost their language and they could not recognize who they …show more content…
The students, the community, the teachers, and the schools are interconnected and interdependent in some way in this system. Because of the high rates of drops out in schools and the irrelevance of knowledge taught in schools to the student’s real life, it leads to many severe social problems such as crime, unemployment and education inequality. Additionally, many illnesses originated from misuse of the technology have become a threat to destroy human’s creativity and critical consciousness. A new education model should be applied to change: indigenous student-centered with minority teachers to all school programs and at all levels with supporting of other elements. That can help native children learn English and their own language well. They will not feel they are blind in their
The European created boarding school to force Indian children to speak English, learn the culture of the white people, and drive away their native culture. Generations of indigenous people could not speak their mother language as it was banned in traditional schooling or use their sub-skills in the native land. Many of them were seen as ‘in between’ people as they could not adapt to the life of the white people and their own hometown around them.
Chapter 7, belonging to part VI, is continuity from Chapter 6; however, it gives a specific example of indigenous child' life from his early year to full-grown adulthood in his native environment and at his school. The English Language is a compulsory language in schools with a lot of written texts. Native American children could not speak English and their mother language well so that they failed to communicate with both societies. A generation felt embassy speak out their own thinking, they lost their language and they could not recognize who they …show more content…
The students, the community, the teachers, and the schools are interconnected and interdependent in some way in this system. Because of the high rates of drops out in schools and the irrelevance of knowledge taught in schools to the student’s real life, it leads to many severe social problems such as crime, unemployment and education inequality. Additionally, many illnesses originated from misuse of the technology have become a threat to destroy human’s creativity and critical consciousness. A new education model should be applied to change: indigenous student-centered with minority teachers to all school programs and at all levels with supporting of other elements. That can help native children learn English and their own language well. They will not feel they are blind in their