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Studying Education
An introduction to the study and exploration of education
Janet Lord
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Studying Education
An introduction to the study and exploration of education
Janet Lord
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Yourbeginners guideto the study and exploration of education.
Introducing youto what education is, this book helps you explore the different ways of looking at education, the challenges it faces and how to study it at university and beyond. Guiding you through your course it:
· Shows you what you need to study and how to study and develop your understanding ·Gets you building your knowledgeofessentialthemes, perspectives and theory from across the education sector
· Helps you to see the 'bigger picture' of education
· Includes supporton how to write academically, thinkcritically, evaluate evidence and engage with debates.
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Part 1 Background and context
1 What is education and what is its purpose? Why study education?
- interdisciplinary
- dynamic
- socialisation
- qualification
- subjectification
- Education is a worthwhile and powerful subject to study.
- There is no one âcorrectâ definition of education or view as to what the purposes of education are.
- According to one view, education has particular functions, including getting qualifications, assimilating the values and ideas of society, and developing your own agency as an independent thinker and actor in the world.
- A number of subjects or disciplines have something to say about education; these include sociology, psychology, philosophy, history, economics and politics.
Everyone knows what education is â donât they?
Everyone thinks they know what education is; after all, we have all been to school, and we are all educated. But trying to define education formally is quite a challenge. There is no real agreement about what education is or about what âeducation studiesâ is. And really, there is no agreement either on what education is for. Some books try to define these terms; in this book, we are going to do it differently. In this first chapter, Iâm going to introduce some thinking about the nature and function of education and pose some questions. At the end of the book, we will come back to those questions and see what the material we have read leads us to think.
What is the purpose of education?
First of all, what is the purpose of education? Itâs important that we start by considering this question, and to have it in mind as we work through the book.
Gert Biesta, a well-known, well-respected educationalist, has done some thinking about the purpose of education. He suggests that education tends to function in relation to three domains (see Figure 1.1). By this, he means that education always functions in relation to these three domains, or that education always impacts on these three domains. He calls these domains qualification, socialisation and subjectification (Biesta, 2010).
Qualification
Qualification has to do with the transmission and acquisition of knowledge, skills and dispositions. This is important because it allows children and young people to âdoâ something â it qualifies them. This might be something such as becoming qualified to perform a certain task or job. Or we can think about qualification more generally, as the idea that education qualifies people to live successfully and purposefully in todayâs complex society.
Socialisation
As you will have seen through your experiences in the education system so far, education is not just about knowledge and skills. Through education, children and young people can also learn about and assimilate different cultural, professional, political and religious traditions and ways of being and doing (Biesta, 2010). Partly, this is a stated aim of education, but socialisation also works through what we call the âhidden curriculumâ, or the â[lessons] which are learned but not openly intendedâ (Martin, 1976, p136). The hidden curriculum might be about the ways in which existing social structures, divisions and inequalities are transmitted, for example.
Subjectification
According to Biesta (2010), education also impacts on individuals as people, or âsubjectsâ. This might be to do with how learners may become empowered as people, perhaps because of the knowledge and ways of thinking that they acquire, and it might also be about how people can become disempowered as they adopt particular ideas and ways of being and doing. So, subjectification is about how education contributes to how we exist as human beings, or as human âsubjectsâ. Itâs about how we have agency (i.e. the capacity to act independently and to make your own decisions and choices).
Biesta, G.J.J. (2010) Good Education in an Age of Measurement. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
In this book, Biesta considers the different purposes and dimensions of education. He also emphasises the importance of teacher judgements, considering the different judgements that are made in education and what it means to judge.
Itâs interesting to think about how these ideas of Gert Biestaâs might link to our thinking about our study of education, whether that is as a trainee teacher or as a student of education studies. Itâs perhaps easiest to see how âqualificationâ might be key to our studies, as we get a degree, Access qualification or qualified teaching status.
Our own socialisation, whether that is as a teacher, education professional or student of education, is something that we rarely think about explicitly. We also rarely think about ourselves as someone with agency and as an individual who is empowered and/or disempowered in various ways.
Thinking about socialisation and subjectification
Below, you will find some questions to help you start thinking about socialisation and subjectification. If you havenât yet been introduced to thinking about your own position in relation to education, as well as how education has affected you, then reading this case study might be a useful way for you to start that thinking.
Case Study
Sarah
Sarah is training to be a teacher. She studied community and informal education at university and is now completing a postgraduate teacher training course. On her teaching course, sheâs just been introduced to Biestaâs ideas. Sarah can see that education has given her some qualifications, but more than that she sees that she has learned a lot about the world through her schooling and university education, and through the way that she was educated (more informally) at home by her family, through her friendships, and so on. She comes from a household where her mum and many other members of her family are teachers, and she has been brought up to believe it is important to do a job that is in some way useful to society. Professional behaviour and thinking are also part of her socialisation.
In terms of Sarahâs thinking about herself as an agent or a subject, she thinks that she is perhaps both empowered and disempowered by her education. She has been taught how to think and she has been exposed to the world views of others. She is now a committed feminist and is passionate about social justice. Her educational experiences have involved her being taken seriously, her values have been talked about and discussed both at home and at school, and she has been taught that her values matter, even if they are not the same as those she has been exposed to at home or at school, and even if she has been challenged in them. But she is wondering whether she is also disempowered as a person â are the choices that she has made about ways of being, thinking and doing really âfreeâ choices?
- Of the three domains that Biesta talks about, would you say that any one is more important than the others?
- Are the three domains dependent on each other, as Biestaâs diagram seems to imp...