Parents want teachers to do more when it comes to teaching their children about social and life skills inside the classroom, according to a new report.
The joint study between Monash University researchers and the Australian Scholarship Group (ASG) is the only one of its kind to investigate the state of education in Australia from parents' perspective.
Undertaken by Monash Faculty of Education associate professors Sivanes and Shane N. Phillipson, the report said Australian parents want their children to have access to a "holistic education".
According to the study, 69 per cent of parents believe schools should do more to teach their child about social skills. When ethnicity is factored in, the proportion increases substantially to 94 per cent among Indian and other Asian parents.
Furthermore, 49 per cent of parents agree they would like their child's school to do more about teaching them how to behave in public, which increases to 74 per cent among Indian and other Asian parents.
The mantra "The Corps is mother, the Corps is father" springs to mind.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Friday October 13 2017, @10:39PM (5 children)
But, if it's included in the curriculum, then we can develop metrics for it, rubrics by which to assess it, trend changes over time, develop minimum standards for advancement and admission - doesn't that sound like a fun world? Let's make social functioning another grade in school, another SAT score that colleges can screen admissions based on. Sure, it's taught informally everywhere, all the time, but let's build up the formalism and roll it out across the system.
Explain that to the parents and most of them would probably back off from their desires to have it "taught in school."
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @01:11AM
<sarcasm>Every child should be capable of enabling, covering for or walking on eggshells around a Harvey Weinstein. The cowering, complicit body language of going along to get along is definitely the way forward for humanity.</sarcasm>
(Score: 2) by chromas on Saturday October 14 2017, @03:33PM (2 children)
I hadn't heard that word before and imagined a test to measure one's rube-ness. I was disappointed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @04:51PM (1 child)
You're American, I assume. And probably went to college too. And we wonder at our kids being poorly educated. Sigh.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @10:45PM
Perhaps he is an elderly dotard?
A similar uproar as a result of a collective lack of comprehension ensued.
As an American myself, I was agog at my compatriots lack of literary awareness. Then I had to explain the word 'agog' to them as well.
The far side of the moon is not far enough away for me to move to, I tell you...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @04:18PM
The Japanese, recognizing that there's just not enough hours in the school day to fully traumatize a kid, have invented the cram school. [google.com]
Did anybody see the "Married with Children" episode where Kelly Bundy was preparing for the sports quiz show?
"I'm full."
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