Teacher Candidates as Victim and Rewarding the Obedient: What Is Really Being Taught at the Faculties of Education? An Experiential Account

Abstract

This chapter continues to outline examples of how schools oppress and what the authors believe currently prevents quality willed learning from being realized. This chapter is written as a qualitative theoretical piece that explores how the authors believe many faculties teach their students misinformation. As well, it includes a list of messages that are taught at many faculties of education that work counter to a democratic approach. It concludes with the message that wanting the best for our children requires confident, competent, professionals that can think critically and creatively, and who are not obedient fearful automatons. Just as in all complex systems, there are those who comply and those that resist. The point is to raise the issue and have us think about this personally: Where do you stand as an educator? Is our system much different than the one in less democratic educational countries? The authors’ motivation for writing this is that they want the best for our children. To accomplish this, they believe we need confident, competent, professionals that can think critically and creatively, and who are not obedient fearful automatons.