This is http://www.essayz.com/a9502161.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %LEARN TEACH MISTAKE EVALUATE SELF OTHER STUDENT+950216 %REFLEXIVE OBJECTIVE CONFORM ALIENATE ESTRANGE+950216 %EDUCATE PROFESSOR GRADUATE SCHOOL COLLEGE RESEARCH+950216 %SECURITY VULNERABILITY HONESTY DEFENSIVE SECRET 950216 Learning entails the evaluation of previous intentions, actions, mistakes, forgetting, remembrance, etc. Evaluations may be made by self of self, by self of others, by others of self. Education entails learning which is facilitated by teachers who seek to educe and clarify the processes of learning which entail evaluation. Teachers need to learn how to be effective teachers by evaluating their previous efforts at facilitating learning. Learning, teaching and education are essentially reflexive processes. If learning, teaching and education are dominated by compulsive objectivity; wise evaluations are unlikely to take place, and the whole process is likely to disintegrate and so lack integrity. The educational process is not effective if it is alienative---for alienation blocks learning from mistakes made in the past and mistakes yet to be made. The educational process may become alienative and so ineffective---if evaluations are characterized by legalism, judgmentalism and condemnations. Alienation, judgments and condemnations may be: of self by self, of self by others, or of others by self. Thus ideals and idealists that lead to striving for perfection may bear bitter fruit by which their futility may be recognized. Legalism, judgmentalism and condemnations undermine the kind of true security which is essential to freeing students and teachers to deal openly and honestly with whatever blocks their learning from mistakes they make. Any ideals and values which lead to legalism, judgmentalism and condemnations thus undermine the educational processes which in essential ways entail reflexive considerations by students and teachers--- focused upon what they have done together. These considerations are especially relevant in efforts to transcend the perpetual crisis in science education. The crisis will continue until honest consideration is given to the dilemmas pointed to above. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================