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Education VS Indoctrination
Shaza Walid
Noha Fikry
Nihal Sherif
CORE 4198
Let's think
Share with us a time when you were taught something in school then a real-life experience taught you the exact opposite.   
What is the problem with that?
- Implicitly indoctrinating the minds of students with nationalist, social class, gender, and religious preset ideas.
- Does not allow students to develop problem solving and critical thinking skills.
- Instills a value system that does not match or help in real life. 
- Dissonance occurs when the student sees that situations contradict what he/she has learned in school.   
What should we do about it?
Action-based learning/practical learning rather than indoctrination.

Learning should occur through showing –as in active participation– and embodying ideals.
Active resistance through self-exploration during or after schooling years.
Alternative educational systems/tools.
What WE think we should do about it?
- Focus on two kinds of reflexivity:
Communicative reflexives:
Characterised by internal conversations that require completion and confirmation by others before they result in courses of action.
Meta reflexives:
critically reflexive about their own internal conversations and critical also about the prospects of effective action in society.
How?
- Creating content that would trigger children to actively think about what they are learning instead of being passive recipients.
- Writing a short story for children ageing 9-11 years old that would trigger their minds about the values they learn at school. 
To be delivered to 2 groups of children, 1 from international & from public schools. 
References
- Clabaugh, Gary K. (2007). Education or Indoctrination: Is There a Difference? Educational Horizons, 86 (1), 6-9.
- Cooley, Aron. (2009). Reviving Reification: Education, Indoctrination, and Anxiety in The Graduate. Educational Studies 45 (4), 358-376.
- Grant, Adam. (2014, April 11). Raising a Moral Child. New York Times.
- Levinson, Meira and Sanford Levinson. (2003). Getting Religion: Religion, Diversity, and Community in Public and Private Schools. In Sanford Levinson (ed.), Wrestling with Diversity (90-123). Durham, New York City: Duke University Press.
Thank you for listening!

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