SAE3701 SOUTH EDUCATION SYSTEM
NAME: …………………
STUDENT NUMBER: ………..
UNIQUE CODE: 779146
YEAR MODULE
ASSIGNMENT 3 2022
, QUESTION 1.
1) According to Christie, what purposes do schools serve?
• The primary purpose of a school is to provide an environment where teaching and
learning take place.
• An important purpose of schooling is to prepare people for the world of work beyond
school.
• Nation-building and citizenship - political goals - are the key purposes of schooling.
• In a democracy, public education - schooling - Is one of the major vehicles for teaching
the values of a society to children and young adults.
• Education is about the development of the individual
2) According to Christie, what is the role of critical Intellectuals in Education?
• Role of critical intellectuals in education is to continue to question, probe and explore
what exists.
• keep envisaging alternatives, to keep challenging with new Ideas, and to keep
pressing against the boundaries of common sense towards something better.
• to hold an ethical position on education, which entails a commitment to continuously
thinking about how we may best live with others in the world we share.
• To enrich debates from within educational discourses
• To bring about more radical measures to reduce social injustices and work towards
greater equity
• To support teachers and principals to work towards building professionalism based on
capacity as well as accountability.
• To acknowledge the power of the formal codes of knowledge, and to work to make
them accessible to all students
• To uphold an ethics of education as part of speaking truth to power, and speaking truth
about power.
NAME: …………………
STUDENT NUMBER: ………..
UNIQUE CODE: 779146
YEAR MODULE
ASSIGNMENT 3 2022
, QUESTION 1.
1) According to Christie, what purposes do schools serve?
• The primary purpose of a school is to provide an environment where teaching and
learning take place.
• An important purpose of schooling is to prepare people for the world of work beyond
school.
• Nation-building and citizenship - political goals - are the key purposes of schooling.
• In a democracy, public education - schooling - Is one of the major vehicles for teaching
the values of a society to children and young adults.
• Education is about the development of the individual
2) According to Christie, what is the role of critical Intellectuals in Education?
• Role of critical intellectuals in education is to continue to question, probe and explore
what exists.
• keep envisaging alternatives, to keep challenging with new Ideas, and to keep
pressing against the boundaries of common sense towards something better.
• to hold an ethical position on education, which entails a commitment to continuously
thinking about how we may best live with others in the world we share.
• To enrich debates from within educational discourses
• To bring about more radical measures to reduce social injustices and work towards
greater equity
• To support teachers and principals to work towards building professionalism based on
capacity as well as accountability.
• To acknowledge the power of the formal codes of knowledge, and to work to make
them accessible to all students
• To uphold an ethics of education as part of speaking truth to power, and speaking truth
about power.
