نوشته ها و ترجمه های محمد حیدری

An education degree is perfect if you enjoy the immediacy of working with young people and helping them develop their critical thinking and character.

Graduates often end as teachers in primary or secondary school, sometimes working as special educational needs teachers.

Still focusing on individual children’s formation, others develop careers as youth workers, careers advisers, teaching assistants or speech therapists.

But studying education is also good if you are interested in macro-scale projects and systems. You can join other graduates in becoming a community education officer, an education administrator or a museum education officer. You can also work in adult education and training, curriculum design, education projects, education policy making and educational NGOs.

 If you are interested in the creative industries, alumni have in the past joined television production, cartoon production, or have gone to become writers, artists, photographers, filmmakers etc.

Education is a safe option even if you decide to change direction and go into other industries where strong analytical and communication skills are valued such as the civil service, marketing, PR, advertising, consultancy.

According to a Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) study, just under 80 per cent of education undergraduate leavers in 2014-15 went on to work, and 15 per cent did further study.

The course will mix theoretical and applied courses. 

In sociology, you will learn about how socio-economic and political factors can affect educational institutions and children’s development around the world, and may also think about inclusive education.

In history, you will study the changes educational institutions have gone through in the past and the role they play in national development, as well as the idea of what it means to be educated.

In philosophy, you will ask fundamental questions such as what is knowledge, what it means to teach and to learn, what is character and how can you shape it, what is the purpose of education etc.

In the psychology of education you will focus on child development from early ages through to adolescence by examining language, attachment, thought and social interactions. You may also have a comparative module on international education.

In the applied part of the course, you will do modules on general pedagogy, inclusive approaches to provision for disability, multimedia production, informal learning methods, student-led learning, classroom dynamics, play and pedagogy, cultural and linguistic integration of immigrant students.

The course will mix theoretical and applied courses. 

In sociology, you will learn about how socio-economic and political factors can affect educational institutions and children’s development around the world, and may also think about inclusive education.

In history, you will study the changes educational institutions have gone through in the past and the role they play in national development, as well as the idea of what it means to be educated.

In philosophy, you will ask fundamental questions such as what is knowledge, what it means to teach and to learn, what is character and how can you shape it, what is the purpose of education etc.

In the psychology of education you will focus on child development from early ages through to adolescence by examining language, attachment, thought and social interactions. You may also have a comparative module on international education.

In the applied part of the course, you will do modules on general pedagogy, inclusive approaches to provision for disability, multimedia production, informal learning methods, student-led learning, classroom dynamics, play and pedagogy, cultural and linguistic integration of immigrant students.

An education degree will give you a set of key, transferable skills such as an ability to work and communicate with children, effective oral and written communication, information and communication technology savviness, research and analytical skills, problem-solving skills, teamwork ability, self-management, organisation and time management skills.

In addition, the course will help you design curricula, plan lessons, target the learning capability of students and create healthy and dynamic learning environments.

🔸انفجار نادانی چیست؟

کاواساکی نظریه‌پرداز مدیریت و از موسسان شرکت Apple، پدیده‌ای را در سازمانهای اداری و صنعتی عنوان می‌کند که استیو جابز از آن به عنوان «انفجار نادانی» نام میبرد!

این نظریه می‌گوید: مدیران درجه یک، کسانی را استخدام می‌کنند که از خودشان بهتر و تواناتر هستند؛ اما افراد درجه دو و پایین‌تر، با نگرانی از دست دادن جایگاه خود، افرادی از خود پایین‌تر را استخدام میکنند و همینطور نفرات رده‌های پایین‌تر نیز همین چرخه باطل را ادامه می‌دهند (چون مسلماً آنها هم نفرات درجه یک نیستند).

لذا پس از مدتی با موجی فراگیر از افراد ضعیف و ناتوان در ساختار سازمان مواجه می‌شوید که معدود افراد توانمند را نیز ناامید و فلج میکنند!

این نظریه را می‌شود هم در زندگی شخصی به کار برد، هم در راهبری سازمانی و هم در عرصه کشورداری:

- از خودتان بپرسید آیا با کسانی دوست هستم، که از من باهوش‌ترند و مرا به نقد می‌کشند یا کسانی هستند که هم‌رده من یا پایین‌ترند و بیشتر مرا تأیید میکنند؟

- در سازمان، از خودتان بپرسید آیا از استخدام و بکارگیری کسانی که از من باهوش‌تر، مطلع‌تر و کاربلدتر هستم ترس دارم؟ آیا تعداد کسانی که از من باهوش‌تر هستند در سازمان من به تعداد انگشتان یک دست میرسد؟

- در اداره کلان یک استان یا یک وزارتخانه و یا یک کشور از خود بپرسید آخرین باری که یکی از منتقدان باهوش خود مشورت یا کمک گرفته‌اید یا وی را به یک سمت کلیدی منصوب کرده‌اید کی بوده است؟ آیا از اینکه من از همه باهوش‌ترم لذت می‌برم یا اینکه از می‌توانم از باهوش‌ها بیشترین استفاده را بکنم خوشحالم؟ 

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