The Crisis in Education!!

                            

The Crisis in Education!!

        

          Certainly, education is the main factor behind successful people and the merit of developed

 countries. It is deemed a real success behind any future success. In agreement with Diogenes Laertius,

 who quoted: “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth’’ (Ezeoke, 2011, p. 66),

 education is an essential tool, but only significant learning and effective teachers can shape education

 in the best way to build positive citizenship and inspire future generations and, therefore, design

 society.    Unfortunately, education is in crisis today!! There are many challenges facing education,

 and the response to these challenges will determine whether mankind advances or destroys itself on

 this planet, leaving this planet to those few living things that can survive atomic destruction and

 radioactivity!! 

Actually, the crisis is represented by the following questions:

• Can education free itself from the past goals and prepare individuals to live in a world of accelerating change if human beings can do so❓
• Can the conservative, traditional, rigid educational system break out of the shackles of pressures for social conformity and deal with real problems of modern life❓
• Can education prepare pupils to deal responsibly and communicatively with increasing irrational nationalism and international tension, and help in preventing environmental destruction❓
• Can education best prepare the individual for the conditions of extreme modernity the near future is bringing❓

👉  These are not issues of technology; they are philosophical, social, and psychological issues. And they clearly relate not to the traditional subject matter of education, that is, information and knowledge, or even cognitive or intellectual development, but to the area of personal development and interpersonal relationships.

''The only man who is educated is the man who has learned how to adapt and change; the man who has realized that no knowledge is secure, that only the process of seeking knowledge gives a basis for security. Changingness, a reliance on process rather than upon static knowledge, is the only thing that makes any sense as a goal for education in the modern world''. (Rogers, 1983, p. 104) 

    In agreement with what Carl Rogers quoted, to resolve these crisis questions

 and to assure human development, the goal of education must be the facilitation of change and learning. This goal includes, but goes beyond, cognitive or intellectual education, to include the education of the whole person. It involves personal growth, the development of creativity, and self-directed learning. Thus, we believe that the goal of education is the same as the goal of psychotherapy; the fully functioning person. Where openness to experience; an existential way of living in which life is not static but an ongoing, flexible, adaptive process; and trust in the organism as the basis for behavior are characteristics of the person who is capable of continuing to learn and to adapt to change, to meet the issues involved in the crisis of education.

ULTIMATELY, we are under the influence of humanistic learning theory, where the contribution of Carl Rogers, who is an American psychologist and a humanistic founder, is significant in that it goes beyond traditional psychological and educational theories of learning, which consider learning almost solely in terms of individual or intrapersonal determinants and interpersonal environmental stimuli, to recognition of the social or interpersonal relationship of students with the teacher and with each other and the atmosphere or the psychological climate of the school.

 Do you want to know more about humanistic theory? 

Who is Carl Rogers? And what is the Rogerian view?😮😀 

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