Education Versus Schooling--Project LEAD: High Expectations!
| Autor: | Flavia R. Walton, Valerie D. Ackiss, Sandra N. Smith |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
Program evaluation
Economic growth business.industry education Compensatory education Context (language use) Public relations Social issues medicine.disease Education Substance abuse Collective responsibility Race (biology) Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Anthropology medicine Sociology business |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Negro Education. 60:441 |
| ISSN: | 0022-2984 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/2295495 |
| Popis: | Education versus schooling has become a topic of great concern to educators and communities-at-large. As evidenced by problems involving youth such as drug abuse, premature sex, teen pregnancy, academic underachievement, and school dropout, it is clear that many youth have not acquired the skills necessary to function successfully within the context of generally accepted societal expectations. In addition to learning the necessary academics there seems to be a general societal consensus that youth must also acquire basic values, decision-making skills, and other life survival skills. The debate over who has responsibility for transmitting the vital lessons that deter young people from becoming unfortunate statistics is ongoing. Parents and communities are placing more responsibility on the schools to provide youth with a broad-based education rather than mere schooling, while the schools argue that parents and communities must become more involved in this arena and assume primary responsibility for providing youth with lessons in values and life survival skills. At one point in history the responsibility for educating the young was shared and reinforced throughout the entire community-in the home, school, and church. There was no dispute over the expectations of youth or over the consequences of their failure to meet those expectations. The youth of a community belonged to that community, and the community accepted collective responsibility for their success or failure. This was particularly true of the African American community whose members necessarily had to depend on and work with one another as well as with community institutions for the uplifting of the race. The return to some notion of community responsibility in the education of our youth is critical, particularly in light of the issues that confront our youth and their families today: "babies" having babies; the increase in the number of single-parent, female-headed households; and the effects of drugs ("Crack" in particular), violence, and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). |
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