2'2The Paradigm Shift in Education

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2.2 The Paradigm Shift in Education
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Traditional Practice for Education

• Our educational system was designed to teach
  students the basic facts and survival skills
  needed to work in industry and agriculture. (Not
  much change over the last hundred years.)
• Assumptions
• All students learn the same way.
• The teachers job is more of pouring facts .
• Students will work individually, absorb facts,
  and sit quietly in rows.

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Now time has changed!

• What education should provide in this Information
  Age
• Technological familiarity
• Literacy (language, numeric, computer)
• Culture Communication
• importance of Workgroup
• as collaborators and peers
• Ways of learning how to learn
• generic survival skills!
• as power productivity worker adaptive to various
  dynamically changing information tools

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Paradigm Shift in Education A Summary

• from training-oriented to knowledge-oriented
• teaching process ? teaching/learning process
• teaching tools shift more to learning tools and
  environment
• schools will dissolve into part of a total
  learning ecology
• lt learning society learned society learning
  organization organization learning gt

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Paradigm Shift in Education A Summary (contd)

• Though the high goal of education still remains,
  but
• The teachers role as the authoritative knowledge
  holder will change!
• Teacher will shift to act as a knowledge
  interactor and/or a facilitator and an enabler
• ? teacher is also the learner and/or tutee in the
  process!
• lt Teacher-centred ? Learner-Centred
• ? learners will seek for the best learning
  facilitators in the global education market
  place!gt

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• Thirty years from now the big university
  campuses will be relics. Universities wont
  survive. Such totally uncontrollable
  expenditures, means that the system is rapidly
  becoming untenable.
• - Peter F. Drucker, Forbes, March 1997.