What Is Education For? by Ailany Sanchez

What is Education For? Danielle Allen

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Civic Agency

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Students should be ready for civic agency. There are three tasks needed, disinterested deliberation, prophetic frame shifting, and fair fighting. Basically it means that one should first thoroughly think about the problem, then stand up for one's believes , lastly campaign for a legal change. Therefore to accomplish each role or all roles, education needs to embrace participatory readiness, which could lead to further leaders, activist, and politicians.

Education's Vocational purpose

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"the goal is to ensure that young people, and society generally, can compete in a global economy" (Allen 9). Essential role in global economic competitive. The Vocational model, usually pushing STEM, is a system that educates children on specific field of study, rather than focusing on the impotence of being a part of the society.

Inequality

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"Achieving an economy with more egalitarian outcomes will require different political choices and economic polices. It will require that we choose different rules to govern labor, housing, and financial markets."(Allen 9). This particular quote claims that to generalize equality, it begins in both political choices and economic choices. In which civic engagement is needed to be taught to individuals more, to know how our society operates and to be able to contribute in the society.

Distributive Questions

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are questions concerning the equal opportunities and resources for all students. Making sure that all students in public school have the equal amount of opportunities and resources given to them no matter the situation

Civic Conception of Eduction

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Participatory readiness comes in place because it's a skill that will help better promote equality through school and eventually throughout after school.

Disverse Education

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are particular solutions both for inequality and the strength of the global economy. Jobs are looking for employees with the skills that fulfill in science, technology, engineering and math. Many people, such as policymakers, education specialists, and children wit low - income, only focus on the economic field and the economic equality, therefore they forget the inequality that is happening around, such as the political equality aspect. Allen believes that a more diverse education will help people to realize the other issues going on in the world. Yet, to prevent income equality, there needs to be a social and political change.

History of Education

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Education hasn't always been a main topic until 1957. The Soviet launch of Sputnik, realized that the United States was falling behind in a Cold War scientific contest. Therefore, the National Defense Education Act, signed a law increasing the funding for science, math, and vocational education. Later in 1983, the National Risk depended the country's anxiety, in which they saw the importance of reforming the school education. Now education is a main topic, in discussions and policies.

STEM education

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In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences' emphasized the need for improvements in science and technology education. "An educated, innovative, motivated workforce - human capital - is the most precious resource of any county in this new, flat, world". "Yet, there is widespread concern about our K-12 science and mathematics education system, the foundation of that human capital in today's global economy" (Allen 10) The stem education focuses more on the global economy, ensuring individuals are in workforce. The stem education emphasizes being in the workforce is the only way to become successful and reduce the wealth inequality.

Knowledge

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"Historical experience suggests that the principal mechanism for convergence [ of incomes and wealth] at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge" (Allen 10) This quote demonstrates the importance of knowledge, the essential role being successful both in the workforce and in civic engagement. Knowledge is obtaining critical skills, needing to "cultivate capacities for social diagnose, ethical reasoning, cause - and - effect anyways, and persuasive argumentation" (Allen 13)

Thomas Piketty

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"educational institutions should be made broadly accessible; elite institutions, which serve mainly privileged youth from the highest income brackets should draw students from other backgrounds; schools should be run efficiently; and states should increase investment in "high - quality professional training" (Allen 10). Many scholars believe education should be distributed equally by giving every student the chance to receive an education and receive the opportunities to help them become successful out in the real world.

Political action

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To prevent any type of inequality, participating in the life of democracy is needed first. Reading, writing, and collaboration, are all basic skills for political action. "An education that prepares every studded for civic and political engagement not only supports political equality but may also lead to increased economic fairness." (Allen 11). Taking political action first, as fighting for what is right for the society, can lead to equality in everything else.

Liberal Arts Education

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"We need liberal arts. They are called the free person's art for a reason" (Allen 13). It is the job of teachers and scholars, to learn from the success and errors in the past, to then build a stronger intellecutal tools. Humanities and social sciences increase participatory readiness. Focusing on liberal arts education, it ensures students receive the essential skills needed for civic engagement. To be able to engage in the political issues and to use their freedom of speech, to better their communities.