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Abstract educational methods

Name(s):

Unarticulated goal of educational methods

Overemphasis on academic education

Claim

There has been a general collapse in the purpose of education, following shifts in methods of expert training. This has meant a reduction in the overall context which enabled individuals to see the social applications of the skills they were learning, and has resulted in egocentric economic goals being the main stimulus for obtaining an education.

Broader

Inappropriate education

Outmoded education system

Narrower

Inadequate training in decision-making

Aggravates

Learning distractions

Inadequate education system ^{[in 3 loops]}

Irrelevant scientific activity

Ineffective functional training ^{[in 1 loop]}

Thwarted technological communications

Individualistic utilization of expertise

Self-image unrelated to the external world ^{[in 2 loops]}

Inequitable distribution of skilled specialists

Human wisdom considered unrelated to daily life

Lack of relationship between social techniques and the needs they address ^{[in 1 loop]}

Failure to relate application of ability to situational demands in vocational decisions

Aggravated by

Personalistic use of training

Unarticulated educational goals

Ineffective educational policy decisions

Strategy(ies)

Emphasizing academic education

Articulating goal of educational methods

Value(s)

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

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