0. Epilogue

Author:

DR. ALI EL-FARAMAWY

Affiliation:

PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE, AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY, EGYPT

MOTIVATION:

If you are you a school or university teaching staff and do not have educational qualifications, the following presents an education crash course that explains what are education results, how are these results are achieved, and why and to whom are these results important. At the end you will be able to answer the fundamental six education questions:

1. Educators talk about understanding not memorizing, what will students understand?

2. Educators talk about social construction of reality, what are the values embedded in education?

3. Educators talk about economic development, how will education help develop the economy?

4. Educators talk about international education, how does education serve different fundamental values of diverse cultures?

5. Educators talk about curriculum, why is education policy, aims and objectives so hard to grasp?

6. Educators talk about education, why are professors with educational qualifications scarce?

The basic motivation for reading the research blog is to know more about what you do, to make sure you are on the right track or correct your path.

PROBLEM:

The nature of education across different cultures is problematic in terms of the discrepancies between values sought and values propagated. Most important to all is to ensure that education curricula and pedagogy serves the our societal values, i.e., being responsible. In many countries education systems are imported through international organizations assuming that these imported systems are nurturing and develop our children youth with the RIGHT attitudes Inclinations, habits and knowledge towards our success and the development of society.

EXPECTATION:

This research is a continuations of the dissertation, Rites of Passage: The Making of a Professional Architect. The dissertation is a human science research that follows grounded theory methods to unpack the experience of students, documents meanings, attitudes, habits, skills and knowledge they acquire as a result of a professional learning process. The results provide a cultural, social, and economic theory of education that sacrifices individual identities and prejudices. Although directly related to architecture the research findings are generalizable across professions and across all levels of education. These fundamental values not only serve a professional endeavor, but more importantly supposedly serve different cultures with diverse world views.

While the dissertation uncovers what and how of education, this research focuses on why,  i.e., uncovering possible justification for an aggressive pedagogy. The main research question is: what are the fundamental values served by the design and execution of processive and constructivist pedagogy? Two secondary questions are posed, First, what challenges surface as you implement an educational policy across diverse cultures? Second, what alternative definition of pedagogy, research and professional conduct can serve better the diversity of human reality?

 A PDF format of Rites of Passage: The Making of a Professional Architect by Ali El-Faramawy can be readily accessed through a Google search.