What's your definition of Education? How and where does education happen?

Share your ideas with others in your group - do you all agree?

Agree a definition with the rest of your group and record it.

Think about your own educational experiences - What have been the highlights?
When have you experienced challenge?
What impact has education had on you?
Why have you decided to pursue this path of A Level study?
How have your relationships with teachers been?
Has this impacted on your level of achievement?
What impacted your achievement the most? (Think about home and school)
Why have you chosen the subjects you did at GCSE and now at A Level?
How similar/different do you think your experience is to your parents?

Is the education system and your experience of it as straightforward as you might have thought previously?

Is Education really to simply make us all 'more clever'?

Individual: helps us 'fit in' to wider society and benefits us through better jobs...
How do you think education achieves this?

Society: ensures everyone knows their purpose and fulfils it...
How do you think education achieves this?

Think about the concepts of
CONSENSUS
and
CONFLICT
what do these two words mean to you?