This TED talk really speaks to me and the kind of students I teach on a daily basis. The devaluing of "Non Academic" students who can be incredibly talented in creative areas is prevalent in the majority of education systems. I teach students who are struggling with basic literacy for a variety of reasons but who are able to create the most elaborate Photoshop creations, or who have design ideas that are tremendous to behold.
The trouble with the system now is that these same students who are struggling academically are being pushed along the conveyor belt of our education system to obtain a degree. Many will struggle and require considerable learning support to obtain a qualification that they possibly never needed. The talk is close to my views on the universality of the Bachelor degree- why?
Many creative students would do far better in apprenticeships in the creative industries that suit their talents. The Vocational Art course that i teach on has been hit hard by curriculum changes so that a large part of their teaching is no longer 12 hours or more a week in creative vocational subjects but instead a large proportion in Welsh Baccalaureate and Key skills lessons, lessons that they have already struggled in at school. The current navel gazing about the pisa results is leading to a solution that cannot and should not be applied, there is no one size fits all solution to the education of our younger population
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