HOW EDUCATION IS POLITICAL?

HOW EDUCATION IS POLITICAL?

How is education political, when most parents, politician, and bureaucrats ask Students to be apolitical and concentrate on studies for a better future and job prospects. To answer this questions, let us focus on the political in education, which rests on four conditions: 

1) school is always embedded in society because its task is to reproduce the cultural, social and economic Life of a particular society.

2) the inherent tension in education between social reproduction and social transformation.

3) that educational change is related to conflicts and disagreements between individuals and social groups regarding their views on how a good education is related to a good society; and 

4) an ethical, informed discourse exists as to what questions to addressed. 

In this way, the school becomes a reflection of state and society.

Education's main purpose- Human enlightenment and liberation: to believe in the capability of all individuals to develop to their fullest without infringing the rights of the others.

HOW CRITICAL THINKING EMERGE: 

When students are aware of the situations, capable of making individual choices and can unravel the hidden agendas within political economic and societal norms, questions society's biases and suppressed prejudices.

The global rise of right- wing populism is not accidental but reflects the choices made by communities through electoral devices. Arguments focusing on the issue that such a government was not chosen by the majority of the population may be true, but nonetheless the fact that a government is chosen to power based on universal suffrage highlights the support that a community of people have for a particular ideology based on cultural monism, anti- immigration, racism,casteism and a deep seated phobia of losing to others. Whether the choice is right or wrong is a matter of opinion depending on where one stands in the social hierarchy and political affiliation. Populism, be it left or right, must be contented because it defies the equality of human beings, asserts some as superior to others and, hence, denies democratic spaces for fuller equal development, justifying the social hierarchisation and avoiding vertical mobility of others whom it considers subordinated, un belonged, unwanted.