Reflections on Global Education & Innovation

    Image source: https://wisdominstinct.com/the-evolution-of-education-through-technology/      The History of Education                                                   (Comment on Herbst’s Article ) Historical context: This article was written at the end of the 90’s; the article states that while in the 70’s historians of education in the USA and Europe had four decades of productive and exciting work, in the 80 and 90’s, historians became fruitless and show lack on sense and purpose.  The author believes that this change may be due to soul-searching movements and the inclusion of topics such as racial minorities, ethnicity, cultural and bilingual education, which created confusion amongst educators. For the author,...

  Image source: https://www.panelphysician.ca/blog/find-the-best-elementary-schools-in-canada    Foreign Influences on Curriculum and Curriculum Policy Making in Canada (Comment on Tomkins’s article) Historical context:  This article was written by Tomkins in the 80s and describes some of the foreign influences that may have contributed to the Canadian Curriculum for over three centuries.  Tomkins explains that Canadian education has mostly been influenced by the USA, UK and Europe and was stable/conservative until that time. Over 300 years ago, Jesuits brought education to Canada and then became for political purposes highly centralized. E. Ryerson, considered by some the father of Canadian curriculum design it mirroring educational systems in Europe, UK and USA.  Meilleur and Chauveau (French Canadians who had studied Medicine in the USA), afraid of anglicization and secularization, incorporated French influences in the curriculum, such as science a...

Image Source: https://positiveexperience.org/blog/hope-in-educational-settings/ Pedagogy of hope: global learning and the future of education (Comment on Bourn’s article)   Historical context: This article talks about the challenges of education in the 2020s.  Bourn describes how after events related to climate change, social movements like “Black Lives Matter” and the Covid-19 pandemic, we are facing an inflex point in time when we are realizing: how globally interconnected we are; how complex the challenges we encounter for survival are; and how important is the need to change.  Bourn explains that as educationalists, our role is to inform students about these challenges, but more importantly promote a positive vision of the future.   Innovation: Bourn agrees that all education has a political component and that hope needs to be driving educational policies and reforms. Hope is a task of all stakeholders involved in education. This involves, constan...