Governmental support on education
Political driving force of The Future of Technology in Secondary Education in 2020
Description:
Every politician in every country tries to influence everything possible. They have some good ideas and they want to be remembered as good politicians. Therefore they try to make these influences. One of these points is education. Every politician knows (or at least he says it) that education is one of the most important things. In most of the cases it is quite harmless, like trying to align businesses with education or improve studies that have proven to be not that good. But also in extreme versions this happens. Think of dictators rewrite the history books to make themselves look good or groups of people who forbid others to go to school (like the Taliban did with girls)
Enablers:
- Increase direct government budget funding in building basic infrastructure, advanced technology research and school supporting
- Encourage public organization and private fund invest in education
- Regulate educational market and align businesses opportunity with education
- Educate public to realize the importance of education for society and individual development, making advanced-technology assisted education recognized by public
Inhibitors:
- Global insecurity
- War
- Social insecurity
- Shortage of National budget allocated to education part
Paradigms:
Politics can influence education in lots of ways. Especially, if government can play it role appropriately to support the basic platform such as building those expensive and time-consuming infrastructure building, support educational market development, it will raise the final result to a grade that cannot be achieved by two or three private institutes .
Timing:
Refer to resources below which describe the Clinton government’s policy in educational technology.
WEB Resources:
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/os/technology/reports/timeline.pdf