I have to write a summary of an article called "Room for Readers" from the NEA magazine. It’s about how school libraries are losing ground and having to turn their libraries into carts, although research has proven that libraries and resourceful librarians improve student achievement. So the main thing I have to do, besides summarizing this article, is apply a philosophy, i.e. idealism, realism, etc., or an educational theory to this. Please help me out.
You have room here to examine the core philosophy of American Education and why it is no longer based on the principle of imparting knowledge, skill and talents to pupils.
That is to say, the purpose of education had been traditionally based on teaching students to read, write, and perform arithmetical functions in the early years, to make it possible for them to learn subjects such as history, geography, logic and science in later years, and to prepare them to participate in society.
Requiring that students subjugate themselves to the educational system, and to their teachers and administrators had been elementary to the entire process from the time of Aristotle’s Academy forward.
You might examine how the underpinnings of what used to be education have changed to the point that the whole system has passed the brink of failure and become something else entirely.
You might explore potential reasons why the educational system in the US no longer exhibits a compulsion to both teach, and inspire, children to read. You may even want to examine whether the institutions which fund education in this country and which receive funding for it, may feel that an educated populace is less than desirable.
You have room here to examine the core philosophy of American Education and why it is no longer based on the principle of imparting knowledge, skill and talents to pupils.
That is to say, the purpose of education had been traditionally based on teaching students to read, write, and perform arithmetical functions in the early years, to make it possible for them to learn subjects such as history, geography, logic and science in later years, and to prepare them to participate in society.
Requiring that students subjugate themselves to the educational system, and to their teachers and administrators had been elementary to the entire process from the time of Aristotle’s Academy forward.
You might examine how the underpinnings of what used to be education have changed to the point that the whole system has passed the brink of failure and become something else entirely.
You might explore potential reasons why the educational system in the US no longer exhibits a compulsion to both teach, and inspire, children to read. You may even want to examine whether the institutions which fund education in this country and which receive funding for it, may feel that an educated populace is less than desirable.
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