What is Education For? by Gage Orlowski https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum en-us 2025-02-24 19:24:26 UTC 2025-03-01 03:56:12 UTC hello@padlet.com What is Education For? gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340803505 2025-02-24 19:25:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340803505 Vocational Capacities gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340810771 Practical skills and training necessary for specific jobs.

]]> 2025-02-24 19:31:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340810771 Civic Agency gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340810889 Lawyers representing the Campaign for Fiscal Equity defined civic agency as the ability to capably participate in civic duties such as voting and serving as a juror.

]]> 2025-02-24 19:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340810889 Vocationalism Paradigm gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340820804 More classes focused on topics related to STEM

]]> 2025-02-24 19:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340820804 Participatory Paradigm gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340821230 More classes focused on topics related to Humanities

]]> 2025-02-24 19:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340821230 Technocratic Economic Policies gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340823409 A Technocratic society is characterized by a government where technical experts are given authority and power.

]]> 2025-02-24 19:41:53 UTC https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340823409 Why is it neglected? gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340824525 2025-02-24 19:42:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340824525 Why is it emphasized? gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340825086 2025-02-24 19:43:05 UTC https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340825086 Why should it be emphasized? gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340829840 2025-02-24 19:46:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340829840 Egalitarian Society gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340831024 A society characterized by the belief that all people are equal and entitled to equal rights and opportunities.

]]> 2025-02-24 19:47:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340831024 Economic Inequality gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340846301 2025-02-24 20:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340846301 Participatory Readiness gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340851246 Increases democratic engagement, which combats political and economic inequality more effectively (compared to the vocationalism paradigm) by causing policy changes.

]]> 2025-02-24 20:04:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340851246 Political Inequality gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340853085 2025-02-24 20:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340853085 Democracy gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340855416 A form of government where people vote directly or indirectly (via elected officials) for or against political decisions such as policy changes or laws.

]]> 2025-02-24 20:08:38 UTC https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340855416 USA Falling Behind gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340865710 1) Soviet launch of the Sputnik created a sense of the USA falling behind during the Cold War.

2) 1983 report A Nation at Risk kicked off an educational reform; "If an unfriendly foreign power had
attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it
as an act of war" (9).

]]> 2025-02-24 20:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3340865710 Legal Right gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3341035747 Most state constitutions guarantee a right to education, therefore the constitutions aim to achieve equality. "the reliance on an exclusively vocational paradigm as the sole guide to education policy making is a failure to meet the legal standard for securing a basic right." (13).

]]> 2025-02-24 23:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3341035747 Technology-Dependent Economy gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3341051828 An economy that uses technology to drive productivity and economic growth.

]]> 2025-02-25 00:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3341051828 Liberal Arts gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3341111786 Includes topics such as history, sociology, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology. All of these help develop people's verbal competence and social analytical skills.

]]> 2025-02-25 01:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3341111786 States' Beliefs gio8_1 https://padlet.com/gio8_1/3883k5f12omq5cum/wish/3341118534 In 2006, the highest court in New York agreed with the need for civic agency, but claimed that people with at least an eighth-grade education level would "eventually
function productively as civic participants" (9).

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