What students in schools and students at universities should learn, what skills should they improve and acquire beyond the knowledge itself?
In education, it is not only about transferring knowledge, but also about the ability to use this knowledge, to acquire, search, process and use it to implement projects. In some fields of study, apart from the knowledge itself, it is important to develop students 'and students' skills, inter alia, regarding the activation of teamwork, critical thinking, participation in debates and discussions, entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, specific computer programs related to the field of study, etc.
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What students in schools and students at universities should learn, what skills should they improve and acquire beyond the knowledge itself?
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The main role of education is to acquire a set of moral and ethical values that you can then use throughout your life.
The main role of education is to acquire a set of moral and ethical values that you can then use throughout your life.
Transferring knowledge is just a basic part of education. The application depends on how the transferred knowledge is applied.
Education is the basic need for every human beings .Education does not end at the academic level .Our mind has a storage of our various thinking phase of our life covering the action of our lifeline which help us to process the code of our living life including our moral code & conduct ,our behavior ,our approach under our honesty covering the social fabrics & environment which are not the subject of syllabus .
This is my personal opinion
Dariusz - First of all, we must differentiate between literacy and education. A literate is a person who is able to read and write with understanding but an educated is a person who is an enlightened one. It is not necessary for an educated person to be literate. Examples are enormous in history of human civilization that how people enlighten the world despite being illiterate. This is perhaps the drawback of modern education that despite universality of education or mass literacy, we are not able to achieve the goal of education i.e., enlightenment of one and enlightenment of all.
I think that besides transferring knowledge, education should fulfill the following goals and skills:
1. A profound conviction of the possibility of achieving human excellence,
2. Education as preparation for social role in ideal state,
3. Education as cultivation of reasoning ability,
4. Transmit society's norms and values for the survival of society or collective life,
5. Commitments and capacities in individuals that are required for future role-performance of individuals.
Dear Dariuz,
"What is important in education? -- You ask
I think that only education can save countries and even individuals from possible collapse, be it violent or gradual. Of course, education is costly, bur it is far less costly than its alternative, ignorance. So, we should look very seriously at students' education.
Besides transferring knowledge, education should aim at generating creators and innovators not conformist people, that is, people who passively accept ready made and established truths imposed on them from outside.
So, teachers and professors should do their best to bring about students interested in pursuing the true, the good and the beautiful. When students are interested in the pursuit of the true, the good, and the beautiful, they become citizens of the world.
KInd regards,
Orlando
Enhancing self-concept, communication skills, professional behaviors, and teaching ethics!
The Nature of Transfer and Its Relevance for Composition Instruction
In clarifying the nature of knowledge transfer, it can be instructive to distinguish it from learning, which has been defined simply as the durability of knowledge—that is, information stored in memory . Transfer, on the other hand, involves the application of knowledge acquired in one situation or context to a different situation or context . Of course, learning is a crucial prerequisite for transfer; still. The ends of education are not achieved unless transfer occurs. Because transfer occurs over time and across contextual borders that make it difficult to observe within the traditional academic institutional structure .
Dear Dariusz Prokopowicz, I agree with you. Beyond the transfer of knowledge to students; some values (human and ethical) should be given, applications should be emphasized in the use of the information and also some studies for improvement of the communication skills.
Sometimes, given the questionable results, one wonders whether too little or too much was brought up.
What is important in education besides transferring knowledge?
Besides knowledge transfer, education can includes the following:
Parents tend to compensate for their own imperfections and the failure of their own ambitious life plans in raising their own children. The educational goal is then to burden their children with those successes that they themselves have not achieved. Thus the ego of desire, which the father or mother did not achieve, becomes the educational goal for the child, which - naturally - is not free in its development under noble expectations. The disappointments that a child adds to its parents because, with increasing age, it refuses to want to perform a substitute function for the failure of its father's or mother's life plans are part of their day-to-day educational routine. Thus educational successes that are shown to the outside world are bought by the inner conflicts and behavioural disturbances of the educators. And the former children pass on this conflict when they are adults and have their own children.
Besides cognitive domain (knowledge and skills), it's important to acquire positive attitudes, values and virtues (affective domain). We should add so-called psycho-motor domain (the area with high connection between brain and motor activity). For each domain (cognitive, affective and psycho-motor), there are taxonomies that serve us for planning teaching goals and learning outcomes (cognitive: Bloom, Anderson, Krathwohl etc.; affective: Bloom, Krathwohl, Masia; psycho-motor: Dave, Bloom, Gilford etc.). P.S. Ethics is a part of affective domain.
Along with knowledge transfer, I believe that knowledge creation, sharing and exploitation must be paid special attention. These concepts are actually quite different and it is important for educators to address them accordingly.
As an author you need patience - with the readers, and as a reader you need patience for the author.
Training the mind through meditation and yogic practices ... this covers all facets concentration, focus, ethics, access to non-conceptual knowledge, equanimity and healthy emotions. Training the rational mind is not enough - what I call the female principle/intuition has to also be included. Other traditions such as the Jewish, Gnostic Christians and the Sufis know this sort of training by other names.
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My basic question over the years is what it is that students should acquire as they pass through the School. Higher Education (and not Education as a system transfer of knowledge ) has today to maintain a line of thought recovered from years of Secondary and Primary Education - being, knowing how to be and knowing how to do. To that I would add "knowing to be with others", fundamental for lifelong learning. Skills should be provided to deepen learning-to-learn capabilities. In short, competences must be in the sense that they have a solid base of knowledge in fundamental subjects (statistics, languages, computers, philosophy) and a very strong stimulus to the ability to relate to others.
education at every level is play different role and acceptability. e.g. Primary education ( upto 8th std) is backbone for all life a person as it ignites on fresh new minds but current time this is most neglected for quality education. This is stage for adaptive knowledge and stage to learn moral values, discipline, ethics all virtues of life. Later education 9 to 12 is fundamentals buildings for the subject of science, arts or else. Till this stage is education is transferring of the knowledge and very very have ability for analysis n general. Rest after that is only self study and skill development which only refined if students is interested otherwise just have or award the degrees. University education is self driven and teacher/ professor can only give direction/ guidance. In my opinion this is how education at different levels play role.
Además de los valores éticos, morales es necesario la inteligencia emocional cargada de afecto y orientaciones que permita esa enseñanza en los recuerdos de toda la vida y esta variara de acuerdo al contexto y nivel
The purpose of education is to mature and transform the mental, social and emotional orientation of individuals ,making them responsible,progressive,independent, and self actualized.
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Dear Dariusz
What is important in education besides transferring knowledge? You ask.
To apply the focal knowldge such that people do their best to do the good, pursuit the true beautif. When this were the case, we will have a world with more flower and less weapons.
KInd regards,
Orlando
The correct answer depends on the age and the age difference of the parties involved
As an educator you should wear clean clothes, as a model for the children.
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.”
Muriel Spark
Hi Dariusz. Yes, I agree. In this response I am assuming that the focus is on university preparation of would be educators. I also assume that what I am about to say emerges over time and can only be introduced through practicums, visits, mentors and conceptually in pre-service preparation. So, if we seek to recruit and train teachers (at any stage of their lives) who are passionate (committed to) children, students, and their learning (above all) then we need to support their development in knowledge, skills, self awareness, growth and continuing personal development paths, and their conceptions of their roles as educators - eg co-learner with students, support to primary care-givers. But any ideals they are offered or adopt at university need to be tempered with awareness of realities at the likely chalkface or whiteboard: awareness of primary care, social, community and cultural contexts; students' behaviour and support resources available; managing their self-doubt, disappointment, frustration as teachers; administrative, political and collegial work place requirements and attitudes; managing personal -work life issues; necessity of continuing professional development. I am not sure these can be learned at University, but they should be flagged I think... Best N
It is essential to learn the art of living in a highly complex world.Education must entails social,emotional, and vocational skills that can provide a better chance to excel in life.
This is a very basic question to the role of education, indeed.
As I see other replies mention, education should emphasise on knowledge, skills and attitudes. It is not only to learn but to justify and apply what you learn, for example.
I think this is a very holistic question - everyone has written valid points.
But we can't just teach moral and ethical values - people need more than that to survive, we need knowledge and we need to keep gaining knowledge. We can't just "teach" - we need to teach for understanding so that we know students are actually learning. We can't just teach about our own countries - there is a bigger world out there.
Young children need to be encouraged - sometimes the boundaries that we put in place to ensure we model their behaviour inhibits their capability to be creative - The world will be getting tougher for everyone - we need that creativity to think of new and better ways of doing things! Each generation should be getting smarter in different ways.
At high school we need to encourage inclusivity, morals, what is right and wrong at a basic level, experiences rather than just talking at students so they get a better "lived" experience - because they are not ready for the working and university world. I don't mean make them adults, just better prepared - they are vulnerable at this time in their life, so they need to know what they will face in the world after school.
At university, they need to learn how to study properly to get the most out of the course and the balance of life - responsibility, knowledge, moral dilemmas and fun. Alternatively, young adults need to know that if you don't go to university, there are other avenues to pursue and still make it - so it their life is not "ruined". Teach young people how to look for and make the most of opportunity.
Finally - I don't think it matters what you wear to teach - it matters how you inspire students.
I hope this is less of a "rant" and more helpful to the study.
For me, being an educator is about guiding another soul’s own journey on whatever their path is. Whilst that may seem rather existential, it ensures I don’t bring to the table my own agenda for others but listen with an open heart to what is being indicated from the other.
For education at home: One should be able to play a musical instrument (as well as possible, or bettter) which stimulates children; you should give a practical example in an artistic, manual, technical or sporting performance which can impress or enthral children and inspire them, so that they realize that the father / or mother / can do much more, so only to pursue the daily work and to pronounce admonitions.
Dear all,
Many things are important in education as mentioned in the previous posts.
As I see it,
1. Teachers and professors should master what they teach. When this is not the case, they are no teachers/professors at all. No one can teach what s/he does not know. This aspect is the scientific component of education.
2. Teachers and professors should be well versed in the details of the individual's psychological development. When this is not the case, teachers/ professors risk teaching to their students material that is much above or bellow students' ability to understand. When the former is the case no learning is possible, or, in Piagetian terms, there is no assimilation of what is supposed to be thaught. At their best, students can memorize, but not understand what teachers/professors teach. When the latter is the case, there is also no significant learning because the student knows the point in advance. This is the pedagogical component of education.
Kind regards,
Orlando
Empathy with students and respect for the subject. Education nowadays is based on vomiting information and rewriting it.
Our life circles around the mind habits we formed over the years. We become optimist , empathetic,resilient,compassionate etc by forming strong schema of each one of these characteristic traits and this is possible when our education years are incorporated with guidance and skill based activities that can promote the mentioned skills for a holistic personality development.
It does not (only) depend on the amount of knowledge that is stored, but how it happens. Educating small children in a fully organized IT world has an impact on the development of the brain and you do'nt educate intellectual role models or envious young people but cases for therapy in later years.
The transmission of knowledge will bring a career and experiences to come. Then the meaning of life will be questioned and hopefully the goals will be clarified and pursued.
Education is to give knowledge to be a better person in life and towards society.
It should be based on overall development of pupil and not just cramming.
It should be thought provoking inviting more queries.
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More that transmission I thing is better to build and share it. Very important how do we it
Ingrid
Many new ideas have not emerged so far. Maybe more will come next week.
I believe education is not just a transfer of knowledge, but is also in developing the 21st century competencies which will better prepare the students for when they go out into the workforce, to become contributing members of the community.
For instance, they will only be able to develop social skills like communication, collaboration and critical thinking when they have others who they can bounce ideas off, or work together with. These cannot be done when he/she is alone.
Education also would help level the playing field, providing opportunities to those who may not be socially or financially capable in achieving that without access to schools/education.
I agree with Aik Lim Tan. Here's an example of how education can be used to prepare higher education student of the 21st Workforce using the Asynchronous Team Debate: Conference Paper Debating: A Dynamic Teaching Strategy for Motivating Student...
Best,
Debra
Attitude, skill and knowledge are important as ASK should be habit
Competence of the teacher, communication skills and the desire of students to acquire knowledge
Yes, I am agreeing with you. Transferring the knowledge is very important. Speaking with authority, respect and love is excellent. Also asking students and taking their opinion on. Team work with students. Taking, giving and sharing new ideas and applying in reality.
Understanding students and being with them in their tough times
Education should bring about some transformational changes to the lives of individuals, society and the whole humankind (Aristotle on PRAXIS)
even self education which practiced by many great leaders, scientists and philosophers for better understanding . so its not we need a wall or formal set up for education but certainly upto some stage ( primary of middle school) we need a set up to regulate the education
Dear Friends and Colleagues of RG,
What students in schools and students at universities should learn, what skills should they improve and acquire beyond the knowledge itself?
In education, it is not only about transferring knowledge, but also about the ability to use this knowledge, to acquire, search, process and use it to implement projects. In some fields of study, apart from the knowledge itself, it is important to develop students 'and students' skills, inter alia, regarding the activation of teamwork, critical thinking, participation in debates and discussions, entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, specific computer programs related to the field of study, etc. Please reply I invite you to the discussion Thank you very much Best wishes
The question, generally speaking, is very complex. It may be better to discuss only one aspect of transmission at a time. One aspect is the transfer of knowledge: Already in the first year of life, small children learn that the Eltrn say "no": for example, when the child has just learned to crawl on the floor and is about to tip over a bucket of water. Negative (restrictive) rules of behaviour are communicated expressively and emotionally.
The child learns to omit something, but what it should do is not said. However, linguistic communication is only a part of the overall process of social-emotional learning.
Dear Dariusz Prokopowicz ,
education involves certainly the transfer of information. It then encompasses also skills, i.e., how to find, use, check and communicate such information.
When I look to academic education, I would consider it as the main objective of teaching to introduce students to look at the world from a scientific point of view. This point of view is different depending on the field of study. Various disciplines focus on various aspects of life. They developed a genuine approach to understand the things of interest, and sometimes there is discussion about the decent methodology.
Academic teachers were successful, I think, if the graduates learned to understand the discourse in their field, if they are able to follow and to contribute to that discourse and to realize the assumptions made in their area of study. Even if they leave the academic world, that are important and useful skills.
Beyond that, I think that the overall direction of education, understood in the sense of "Bildung", i.e., formation (of character), should lead towards the development of the individual potentials. Pupils and students should be encouraged to build up their own perspectives, to find out about their personal strengths and weaknesses, and to interact respectfully with others. I sympathize with John Keating (The dead poet's society).
Best
Knowledge transfer is part of learning process.
But grooming of moral, ethical values and application of knowledge at appropriate levels is highly desirable.
The purpose of education is to understand the relationships,their importance and building capacities to optimize the social, cognitive and emotional functioning. Relationship with family members, relationship with culture,relationship with the nation and above all understanding the relationship with universe as a whole.
Years of college education keep a student long time away from practical a research activity. Involving students into research while at the college is not a destruction but a priceless experience in learning as to how to act and listen the ways experienced professionals talk about a research of any kind.
What is important in education besides transferring knowledge?
Depends how we define "knowledge" in this question's context e.g. explicit / implicit knowledge, experience, ideas, methodology etc. Besides knowledge, other things yield as a result from education include:
Education involves learning, knowledge acquisition, and knowledge transfer.
Adolescents or adults will promote those of their abilities and interests that are useful to them and/or that give them pleasure. This is a popular saying in popular psychology.
many times adaptive knowledge is more reactive than the imposed knowledge which rather a task assignment. Formal education is given for sequential way to make the an average child mind regular progressive while there are many child which not prefer or over reactive to class room study and drive their knowledge from their own way either by self study, experiment or other means. Most of discoveries are done by such minds only.
Healthy development of child is achieved through the achievement of developmental goals at various stages of life. TRUST, AUTONOMY, IDENTITY FORMATION,GENERALITY, INTIMACY AND EGO INTEGRITY as explained by Eric Fromm.A Education system must have the capacity to facilitate in achieving these fundamental developmental goals in children for social ,emotional and intellectual development .
To educate, from the Latin means to FORM THE HUMAN BEING, being thus an effort, that beyond the simple transference of knowledge requires and demands proactive action as to what the "receiver" will do with the shared knowledge. Thus, we have that of the educator is exaggerated posture of an example to be followed, instigator of the search for knowledge. In our brief studies we share with enthusiasm of PBL - Problem-Based Learning and this educational tool being our suggestion.
Education teaches to stay calm when faced with difficulties, and contributes ideas to deal with adversity in a logical way.
In general, the older child enjoys privileges over the younger child. If there are many children, the resources must be shared. Younger children experience their parents differently from their eldest siblings.
I agree to the posed question and proposed ideas.
Education is also about teaching self-organization, building the character or scientific/academic self of the student...
I agree to the posed question and proposed ideas.
Education is also about teaching self-organization, building the character or scientific/academic self of the student...
The term knowledge transfer is not very suitable in the science of education. Education should allow the guidance of the learner and provide resources so that can advance in their training. The assimilation of knowledge and use of tools in the specific area is the main objective, but other factors must be associated. Among these factors we must highlight teamwork, solidarity, social humanitarian commitment and also the personal satisfaction of the learner. Doing what you enjoy is a vital asset to achieving these listed goals.
Beside transferring knowledge education should inculcate in students the skills related to innovation, conflict management,vision management,leadership, communication skills,task management,conflict management,anger management ,decision making, and use of psychological resource management.
Dear Colleagues and Friends from RG,
In the context of the above interesting discussion, I would like to propose to modify the above question as follows: What is important in the education process apart from transferring knowledge and improving technical and media didactic instruments?
Please reply
Mentoring graduate students and early career researchers goes beyond transferring knowledge.
However, in the process , it is essential to create impact and positively touch students who pass through your hands
Depending on the discipline that is being taught, the most important thing is to help students develop a good frame of mind on how the learned theories can be applied as a complementary support for other branches of practical knowledge or resolved when situations are not meeting expectations.
Developing skills for future is as important besides skill development. Learning to deal with failures and humility , teamwork and collaboration is necessary for progress.
Dear Dariusz Prokopowicz
I think that the role of education today is not only to develop students’ knowledge expertise but also to Increased their readiness for the labor market.
I believe its about building a person that could contribute well in his/her society, some teachers and professors take it so technical so they believe more in transferring knowledge, but you must see the big picture: going every day to university to meet your students should not be about transferring technical knowledge to them, they can get that information from the internet very easy and maybe understand it in more convenient way than you present in your lecture.
Education is the not only a way of transfering knowledge but overall development of a person. Besides, development of skills, moral duties, communications, soft skills, daily behavioural things and most importantly humanity. Education may create a great personality enriched with all soft and hard skills. As per many reports It has been noticed that only knowledge is not enough to make a successful life and career but it requires a lot of skills and many other things which can be obtained by the education.
Education includes not only the acquisition of knowledge, but also emotional, social and voluntary learning processes. People must become capable of assuming responsibility; this requires them to curb their own drive impulses in favour of cognitively controlled action that enables control, not least self-control. This also means the ability to empathize and to prosocial (helping) behaviour, as well as the ability to engage oneself unprofitably for the common good.
Transferring knowledge with CREATIVITY and ART is important. CREATIVITY is allowing urself to make mistakes and ART is knowing which ones to keep. Both School students and University students should develop these skills.
Basically in school life, a TEACHER's role is much more important for the students. Just imagine small children always accept whatever the teacher is told to them and it keep in their mind forever. So in beginning of school life, a teacher's role is to teach "moral values and difference between right & wrong."
For University student, they should learn theoritical and practical aspects of changing society in betterment sense. They should learn how to create awareness among society of rural areas besides transferring knowledge. And should learn the scientific research accordingly.
Precisely I like to say
"while KNOWLEDGE gives you talent, CREATIVITY makes you UNIQUE."
Dear Colleagues and Friends from RG, Thank you to all discussion participants for participating in the discussion. Many people pointed out the various functions and role of the education process besides the transfer of knowledge. It is very good that so many different functions and roles of the education process have been mentioned that are particularly important beyond just transferring knowledge. In recent years, the significance of these additional functions may even have increased due to the increasing opportunities for students to acquire knowledge from the Internet. The development of ICT, Internet and Industry 4.0 information technologies increases the possibilities of independent, interactive acquisition of knowledge by pupils and students. Therefore, the role of the teacher as a pedagogue in shaping specific attitudes, directing skills development, e.g. in developing skills in creativity, entrepreneurship, innovation, critical thinking, etc. is growing. On the Research Gate discussion forum there are also questions about the possibility of implementing ICT information technologies , Internet and Industry 4.0 to educational processes and systems. The process of using ICT, Internet and Industry 4.0 information technologies in education is already underway and is likely to increase, but it should not lead to intelligent autonomous robots being able to replace humans someday in the future, because these machines will never have all the human characteristics in above all, they will not have emotional intelligence. Machines could only transfer knowledge but will not be able to shape attitudes and develop skills that are particularly important in the education process.
Do you agree with me on the above matter?
What is your opinion on this issue?
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Best wishes
Dariusz Prokopowicz
I think education is the art of helping people to be better, to discover their selves, and the world around them.
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