HoustonEd

I had the incredible opportunity to work with our new UVA-PLE Cohort 20 partners last week. During my “Getting Clear About Your Purpose” session with school leaders, I introduced E.L. Raab’s four purposes for education: Individual Efficiency, Social Efficiency, Individual Possibility, and Social Possibility.  Raab (2017) describes individual efficiency as being a focus on an individual’s ability to navigate the education or socio-economic system and social efficiency as the human capital perspective with an emphasis on sustaining social, economic and political structures and institutions. Individual possibility is described as “classic education” focused on shaping the learning and development of the individual student. And lastly, social possibility is the process of socialization with efforts to shape the collective culture and social norms at both a micro and macro level.   I argue a fifth purpose for our work in educating children: Change Activation. I purport that Ch...