Education: all I learnt at school.

Education: all I learnt at school.

·        The happiest days of my life?  School and me. 

·        A hidden curriculum? What school taught me to be.

-Take some notes on the kinds of ideas you could include in the essay.

Was it the happiest days? How did it start, and end?

  Dimbleby+Barton - self esteem, how we compare ourselves, identification,  roles. (Friendship group, how they make you feel? how you compare yourself academically to people and physically. how you connect/identify with someone and what role you played in school within a class, and friendship group)

Ervin Goffman- with friends you may feel the need to 'perform'. 

How was self esteem built, and knocked. Why was it built-whom influenced this? Why was it knocked- Cooley's looking glass theory (reaction of others) and Myers + Myers ( behaviour that confirms and rejects). Who's opinion did you value? How did this change your behaviour?- Cooper and Smith- compliments. How did this build self esteem.

Lessons you learned, rogers- core self, how much you disclose and the gap of self esteem. How it relates to you and why?

Brimsham Green Secondary School. 2008-2013.

Tutor group-M

Yr 7- Everyone was close, friendship groups we're a lot bigger, groups of about 30.

Yr 11- Groups split, everyone had smaller friendship groups; 10 to a group.
It taught me to be aware, and not naive in this aspect. Everyone can change or not reveal their true self (Jo hari window). As you get older you see faults in peoples personalities or what they say, and it causes you to question it.

In lessons I learnt that to achieve higher, there was a form of competition and you had to strive to beat the person next to you. You felt the need to get higher than those around you or you would be put in a position where you felt bad about it or knew you could of done better. This taught me many lessons as in the work world you have to be prepaired to be disappointed.
 

School teaches you to be aware and independent as you have to take on your own load of work and complete it, it prepares you for later life and gives you access to learn new skills.