Schooling has undergone serious change over the past number of decades, and the Department of Education and Youth’s new Statement of Strategy with its heavy focus on values and inclusion is testament to that.
Out with the days of educating with an eye to forming a flourishing person, or even with a focus on workplace preparation, and instead in with the days of ensuring that the person becomes as unproblematic as possible and fits into the multicoloured, multicultural society that’s still coming into being.
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