If life inherently involves the pursuit of happiness, education should prepare students to face that overall challenge, not just the needs of a future job.
There needs to be a general reshaping of how college is viewed and how colleges
act. There is an epidemic going on right now. Students invest a massive amount
of funds and massive
Two news stories at the beginning of the 2016 fall semester reignited an ongoing
debate about the importance of safety in higher education. The first was a
letter
[https://www.insidehighered.com/news/
When we talk about education, one fundamental thing from which we should start
are the aspects in which education takes place. What does a person need in his
life? What makes him educated,
Public education is now transitioning from a system of educating citizens to a
market for profit. “Venture capitalists and for-profit firms are salivating
over the exploding $788.7 billion market in K-12 education,
“My teaching portfolio speaks of challenges and failures alongside successes,
all woven into a narrative organically establishing who I am and why I do what I
do.”
—Martin Kutnowski [https://hybridpedagogy.org/candid-teaching-portfolio/
Orienting Inquiry and Process
We shape our lives at the intersection and interstices of choice and chance.
Subject to the vicissitudes of chance, we must ask ourselves what choices we can
make that