How is my understanding of the purpose of education visible in my 'classroom'.

First point to note; I don't have a classroom.  My Enviro and release work see me working in the outdoors and squatting in other teachers classrooms up to six times a day.  I do however have three display boards, an edible garden, seedling house, Enviro Blog http://shsenvironmental.blogspot.co.nz/ and native bush walk.

 “Our job as teachers and parents is not to prepare students for something; our job is to help students prepare themselves for anything.” (Juliani, n.d.). 

The action planning model I use in my enviro teaching definitely increases learner agency and problem solving skills in authentic contexts - i would hope this is helping them prepare for anything.


The purpose of education is threefold - qualification (being able to do something), objectification (existing in society) and subjectification (being autonomous).  Much of my enviro work is focussed around whanaungatanga and kaitiaki - an understanding of the interralatedness of everything and our roles as gaurdians.  This readily lends itself to the area objectification.

How to include m understanding of the purpose of dcuationin my 'classsrooms' is an area to develop in 2018.