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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8710151.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %SECURE CONTEXT FOR EDUCATION 871015 The responsibility of the educator (teacher, professor, mentor) is to provide a secure context within which students feel free to fail safe in educing each other, including the educator. Mutual educement is possible only within the context of security. The degree of educement which is likely to take place is dependent upon the degree of felt security. In a threatening and mutually defensive context little meaningful educement is likely, because each person is in a defensive posture which inhibits openness and honesty about mistakes from which all participants might otherwise learn. In a threatening context it is natural for all participants to hide their mistakes and make whatever they have done look as good as possible in terms of conventional criteria. What people learn in a threatening context is how to be defensive and how to promote their own isolated short term advantage. Threats undermine education by the very nature of the relationships which are induced by threats and counter threats. Education has to do with educement: with learning how to be open and honest with each other about each other's experiences, feelings, thoughts, perceptions, mistakes, conclusions, etc. Playing dishonest games with each other undermines education. The traditional responsibility of an educator focuses upon the subject matter of specialization of the educator. Such a focus is based upon a carelessly un- articulated theory of education; a theory which says that the quality of expertise in the specialty is the most important aspect of the qualifications of the educator. Such a carelessly un-articulated theory takes no note of the importance of a secure context within which students may feel free to fail without threat of personal rejection. When proper note is taken of the importance of a secure context, the importance of expertise in some specialty can be securely placed in its proper context, and accorded its proper consideration. It is a mistake to be indifferent to expertise in the area of specialization of the educator; it is also a mistake to make such expertise the primary consideration in a carelessly un-articulated theory of education, which is then thoughtlessly followed without consideration to its consequences. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================