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A New Paradigm of Education: How Is The Difference Similar?

The document discusses the need for a new paradigm of education to address systemic changes brought about by the information age. It argues that [1] systemic change is needed when the environment changes dramatically, as seen through Toffler's waves of change. [2] A new paradigm would transform the industrial age model of bureaucratic control and conformity to one focused on teamwork, autonomy, and diversity. [3] An emerging paradigm emphasizes mastery learning, technology tools, and teaching the whole child in smaller learning communities.

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A New Paradigm of Education: How Is The Difference Similar?

The document discusses the need for a new paradigm of education to address systemic changes brought about by the information age. It argues that [1] systemic change is needed when the environment changes dramatically, as seen through Toffler's waves of change. [2] A new paradigm would transform the industrial age model of bureaucratic control and conformity to one focused on teamwork, autonomy, and diversity. [3] An emerging paradigm emphasizes mastery learning, technology tools, and teaching the whole child in smaller learning communities.

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A New Paradigm of Education

There are two major kinds of change:

• Piecemeal, tinkering, modifying, adjusting.

• Systemic change, paradigm shift, transforming.,

Main Point #1:

Systemic change is needed when a system’s environment changes dramatically.

History of major paradigm shifts.

Toffler’s three great waves of change.

• Development of agriculture

• Industrial revolution (physical capabilities)

• Information revolution (mental capabilities)

Each wave of change brought paradigm shifts in all of society’s systems.

Waves of change: Agrarian Industrial Information

Family: Extended Nuclear Working-parent


Family family family

Business: Family Bureaucracy Team

Transportation: Horse Train Plane & car

Education: One-room Current How is the


Schoolhouse system difference similar?
Main Point #2:

Systemic change is fundamental transformation.

Big changes in society cause (require) systemic changes in all societal systems.

Pull (new needs) and push (means).

2. What Might a New Paradigm of Education Be Like?

Industrial Age Information Age

Bureaucratic organization Team organization

Autocratic leadership Shared leadership

Centralized control Autonomy, accountability

Adversarial relationships Cooperative relationships

Mass production, etc. Customized production, etc.

Compliance Initiative

Conformity Diversity

One-way communications Networking

Compartmentalization Holism
(Division of Labor) (Integration of tasks)
Main Point #3

We must first understand the changing needs and conditions of the emerging
information society.

• Work place • Family • Society

Work Place : How has the work place changed?

• Thinking • Cooperation • Initiative

Response:

• Change the curriculum? But . . .

Students aren't learning enough.

Costs are rising.

Hidden curriculum.

People learn at different rates . . . .

Sorting vs. Learning

Time-based Attainment-based

Group-based Person-based

Teacher-based Resource-based

A key: The report card

Emerging Picture of General Features for an Information-Age System

• Mastery learning • Continuous progress


• Personal learning plans (customized) • Advanced technologies as tools

• Performance-based assessment • Teacher as coach or facilitator

(PBA)
• Thinking skills and meaning making

• Performance-based learning (PBL)


• Interpersonal skills

• Cooperative learning (teams)

Family : What kinds of changes have occurred?

• Lack of communication • Emotional needs unmet

• Mental and physical abuse • Physical needs unmet

• Neglect • Lack of discipline

Response: More discipline, free lunch programs, it's not our problem.

Change the paradigm! How?

Need for: • Caring environment

• Cooperation with parent(s) • Concern for whole child

Emerging Picture of Features for an Information-Age System

• A "teacher" is responsible for a child for a period of about 4 years.

• That teacher is responsible for educating the whole child.

• Each school has no more than 10 teachers, to create a smaller, caring


environment (the notion of schools-within-a-school).

• Each student develops a “quarterly” contract with the teacher and parents.
Need for a new paradigm of teaching

• Customized, focused on the learner.

• Flexibility, choice, and supporting role.

1. What should a school system be like?

Learning experiences, instruction, administration, governance

Technology transformation, not integration

2. How can we help a school system to redesign itself?

Ethical design processes.

Empower communities to design their future.

Need for interdisciplinary collaboration

Need for intensive, sustained efforts in schools

Implications for 21st Century Teachers, CRLT (CEE), Policy Center, the charter
schools initiative, and much more

3. How should preservice teacher education change?

Content

Methods (PT3, small TE programs)

4. How should inservice teacher education change?

Sustained, customized

Coordinated with service activities

Source:
www.indiana.edu/~iweb/reigeluth/dean.ppt
POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
OPEN UNIVERSITY
QUEZON CITY

A New Paradigm
Of Education

Prepared by:
Carmina Y. Valenzuela

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