New school: Can we rethink education for an inclusive future?

• Main Author: Oestereich, Chris
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research; Educational Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lien_research/137; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lien_research/article/1129/viewcontent/new_school.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

It is not always easy to give career advice to young people. In my time, there were virtual paths laid out for youths. Most of them started similarly. Go to school. Work hard. Get good grades. Squeeze in admirable activities. Decide what you want to be for the rest of your life. (The last bit was tricky.) Based on these, people chose a fork in the road that they believed would suit them and then made the best of it, earned a degree and then set off to start their careers. Not everyone had the chance to head down these paths, and many fell off them along the way, but those who managed to stay on them tended to live comfortable lives—at minimum.