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What is education for?

gmt113 — 2025-03-04 16:30:00 UTC

Vocational education

gmt113 — 2025-03-04 16:32:25 UTC

Summary - A vocational education is setting students up to be able to compete in society's economy. The purpose is to give them a wider range of skills to create less of an income inequality, like preparing them to have success in their futures.

Civic education

gmt113 — 2025-03-04 16:32:44 UTC

Summary - Civic education is described as students in school learning the skills they will need to become civic participants in society, like basic literacy, math, and verbal functions. This means that after a certain amount of education, they will be able to vote and serve on a jury, and other civic responsibilities.

Liberal Arts

gmt113 — 2025-03-07 15:20:06 UTC

Liberal arts refers to the education type commonly used in the United States encompassing subjects such as literature, math, philosophy, and the sciences. Allen includes how the benefits of liberal arts have immense value including verbal empowerment and a bettered social analysis. Along with this, Allen states how equality in the world, whether political or economical, is often revolving around liberal arts skills. Liberal arts correlates to civic education and the skills taught in liberal arts similarly better ready a person for their civic duties in adulthood. Both of these education types involve similar subjects such as math and look to build a strong moral compass for those who learn.

Democratic Participation and Civic Agency

gmt113 — 2025-03-07 15:21:36 UTC

Education prepares students for their civic and political participation and this supports political equality and economic fairness. Allen believes that civic agency as the ability to engage in communal world building process. And democratic participation as people develop skills of critical thinking, public discourse, problem solving. It helps people become more aware and more responsible for social changes.

Connection between political and economic equality

gmt113 — 2025-03-07 15:31:00 UTC

Allen described equality as having three concepts: political, economic, and social. The vocational education deals with economic equality. She mentions that economic inequality is the product of politics and that they are directly related. Political forces create income inequality by the choices they make and the distribution of power. Since the political powers affect the economic equality, it makes sense to focus on that first and to educate to create political equality.

STEM

vgb18 — 2025-03-07 15:48:26 UTC

STEM is the learning of topics in the following fields of study: science, technology, engineering and math. The incorporation of STEM is essential to vocational education. Vocational education is the practice of specific skills that will better prepare one for the future; skills like flexibility, career readiness, and practice skills helps better one's chances in the future for their career. STEM, when combined with vocational education, is a powerful tool to utilize for students and helps them develop and gain the skills necessary to complete a career/job in this area of study. Danielle Allen makes it known that learning humanities is just as important as learning STEM, and that the skills necessary to succeed come from both areas, and not one over the other.

Vocationalism and equality

gmt113 — 2025-03-07 15:55:01 UTC

Economists argue that vocationalism and STEM are the answers to inequality and America's global economic standing. In President Obama's State of the Union Address, he stated that the focus on science, technology and other STEM topics in schools will be essential for filling jobs then and in the future. The vocational approach in education translates to a wider variety of skills and will reduce income inequality.

Labor Market

nadcross667 — 2025-03-07 15:58:52 UTC

Labor market refers to the availability of employment and labor within an economy. vocational education directly prepares for those involved to strive in the labor market. This can vary from training at a job for employees to a full education for students, as both can help to ready them for multiple jobs in the ever-changing economy. As this education type provides specialized training for specific jobs, it can better students prior to going into the labor market or when finding another job . Not only does this education type give them a form of competitive advantage in the labor market, but can lead to greater lifetime earnings as well as benefitted society as a whole by helping to grow the economy.