Alternative Systems of Education

February 22nd, 2010 |

Author: James

While pedagogue activity could open up creative channels in my daughter, it will not prepare her for the stress and competitions in the corporate world Hemalatha Iyer

Hemalatha, a member of our New Constructs community, posted her honest categorization of the pedagogue method and why she would not chose it for her daughter. While her own mother-in-law was a pedagogue teacher and completely convinced about the merits of the system, Hema’s concerns are threefold:

1) The pedagogue Method is by and large available exclusive till Grade 5. The transition after that to a regular grouping could be quite difficult.

2) As a middle-class parent, one of the most important things she can offer her child is a good education. The pedagogue grouping is unproven and too such of a gamble.

3) While she would like her girl to avoid the stress she went through in her own education, the corporate concern ease values exclusive degrees and grades. To hit a bright future, her girl needs to graduate from the best colleges with good grades.

Many of you hit posted feedback to my posts on education. This is clearly an area of interest to all of us as parents or forthcoming parents. All of you agree that the current grouping of activity is broken. The deciding methods are ease in an experimental initiate and hit not ease embellish main stream. The question, then, is what should we as parents do? Commit ourselves – and our children – to admirable but unproven alternatives? Or commit ourselves – and our children – to the traditional but flawed activity system?

My wife Girija, far more of a pragmatist than I am, shares Hema’s perspectives. As a profession person, I can see Geoffrey Moore’s Technology Adoption Cycle as a possible paradigm.

In his aggregation ‘Crossing the Chasm’, Moore noted that any new profession is first adopted by a containerful of Innovators who are eager and willing to try new approaches. Once the profession is relatively proven, the Early Adopters, who are visionaries, get on to the bandwagon. Most new technologies move to this initiate relatively easily. However, there lies a big chasm between the Early Adopters and the next big group – the Early Majority, a.k.a. Pragmatists. Most technologies don’t attain it across this chasm and go down the ditch.

The pedagogue grouping and other move systems like the J K Foundation and the Aurobindo grouping are ease on this side of the chasm with the Innovators and Early Adopters. Nowhere in the concern has any modify of innovative deciding activity breached the chasm to embellish embraced by the Early Majority or Pragmatists who could attain it mainstream. The push to get it across the chasm must come from a combination of three forces – employers, parents and policymakers.