Page 54 - Looking_after_school

Looking after school: a critical analysis of personalisation in education

Table 1. Placing the learner at the centre: inventory of perspectives

Problem Solution Figure of the
student
Socio-economic Talents are Maximisation of the The student as a
perspective insufficiently used, output of education source of unique
which is an economic potential/capital
and social problem Efficient organisation
of education
Institutional Exclusivity of Flexible learning The independent
perspective educational paths learner that needs
institutions: flexibility and
• A monopoly on Open systems of open certification/
learning qualification qualification
• A monopoly on
qualification
Service The bureaucratic Customer The student as a
perspective mode of organisation orientation in customer
is inefficient and education
ineffective
Teachers, as
professionals, are
not responsive to the
demand side

Market-economic Education, as a service, Build education as The student
perspective insufficiently takes the a service around, as a user and
user/person of the and together with, coproducer
customer into account the person of the (possibly co-
user and their financer)
experiences

Innovation Based on class groups An organic, flexible The learner as a
perspective and subjects, education and familial source of creativity
is too industrially organisation, based
(fordist) organised on projects The learner as a
(social, cultural,
The culture of Learning economic)
education is environments entrepreneur
homogenous, closed, built for diversity,
and academic (boring) openness, and
impact (relevance)

54