Educational Awareness: The Foundation of Movement

There is relative emphasis on awareness nowadays.  Consumers need to be aware if the product they consume came out of child labour, or animal-tested.  The public is encouraged to take part in government-led initiatives to reinforce awareness.

And there are more mediums and forms of awareness everywhere.  Why the fuss?  The answer is fundamentally obvious: without such awareness, there could be no conscious effort.  Another sort of awareness that had since been added to the roster of ‘knowing’ is the Educational Awareness.

An awareness that basically hovers on anything educational-related, this kind has its roots in line to almost every form of revolution.  If one pushes for the awareness of environmental issues, the said awareness is reinforced as a profound foundation.  This makes sense as it would be difficult to move any further from acknowledging what needs to be acknowledged.

At this point, Educational Awareness serves to be the founding discipline.  Every move needs to come from a perspective characteristic of being well-informed.  Most of all, such awareness permeates a good number of favourable results, like in the context of the environmental movement:

Considered credible because it is backed with academic knowledge

Credibility guarantees that other non-members will pay attention and (at the least) listen

Responsible actions of involved members (of the movement) based from the assumption that they only act in accord to what they know

Those are just a few of the realised effects of Educational Awareness in the context of a particular movement, in this case environmental movement.  Apart from pointing out the outcomes of this awareness, it could also be helpful to delineate its premises. 

For most, such awareness fits the beginning or introduction phase of which the objective is to erase ignorance.  But in truth, awareness grows, evolves, and has to adapt.

An Educational Awareness-Check

There are relatively lots of processes devoted to obscure people’s awareness.  Yet, it remains a fact that visually observable conditions would manifest it-self to prove that yes, one is aware.  In the context of education, how is it possible to detect if there is educational awareness?

In an individual level, this awareness is prevalent through the following scenarios:

• If one is capable of coming up with solutions, alternatives, or methodologies out of formed assumptions; the key here is ‘formed assumptions.’

• If one is careful enough to balance the knowledge and skills derived of experience and theoretical study.

• If one knows not just how to use their own acquired skills and knowledge, but also, when one could rely to those acquisitions, or not and instead, outsource the responsibility. 

Educational awareness also persists to make its presence felt in the community-level:

• If the community uses not just the surrounding natural resources, but its imbued human resources to wield progress.

• If the community is cognisant of its own needs and uses such knowledge to target solutions.

Applicable for both levels is the fact that any individual and/or community have an activated educational awareness when they seek to indulge their incessant hunger for progression via the training bridge called, education. 

Yet, why is this even necessary – this inquiry of awareness?  Does it help to know that one knows?  Perhaps, it does; otherwise, how could one cry of its need if it weren’t recognise for its inexistence, or vice versa?

Apart from addressing what is recognised to be lacking, a question for awareness should also suggest the fundamental supplication of observable facts (hence, the bulleted lists above).  And if one chooses to adjust the focus, they are more likely to see the budding potential in studies devoted for this awareness-check.

Educational Awareness: An Ideology Exhausted, or Not Just Yet

There are concepts, ideologies, or movement that seemed too common; there are those that are timely; and some are mere fads.  Yet, each carries an objective or set of objectives that are noble.  And like every movement, each works under a specific timeframe or a cycle. 

The question is, “What happens to an exhausted ideology or movement?”  It is exhausted in a multitude of instances.  A movement can be exhausted if it no longer serves the immediate needs of its stakeholders.  Or, an ideology no longer becomes acceptable or even applicable to an environment of which it was designed to operate.

An example of a possibly exhausting movement is educational awareness.  Its exhaustion is not strict to the point where it becomes extinct.  Its exhaustion can be based in the following premises:

A. Its exhausted because a huge portion of the globe is literally aware of the difference education makes in the individual level, as well as societal-wise. 

B. It’s exhausted in the sense that access have long been extended to differing proportions and levels.
On the contrary, what marks the absolute ambivalence of educational awareness’ exhaustion consists of these:

A. Though aware, there remains a proportion of people that is relatively unaware; hence, as long as these ‘unawares’ exist, the movement or ideology is bound to remain.

B. Though access has been extended, other factors had serve to further the gap; hence, work on getting those on the other side of that gap remains to be in need of attention (by this movement).

Educational awareness may, indeed, subsist or not last.  However, nobody could describe its exhaustion, which is the end of its operating cycle, to be a total extinction.  Just like that law of energy, it may simply be transformed into another form of ideology/movement, serving another generation.

Increasing Educational Awareness Around the World

Education, simply defined, refers the formal process of passing on a set of knowledge and skills, as well as values, from one person to another. Undergoing this formal learning process is very significant, since it allows understudies to acquire knowledge, skills and values that could prove useful to them in the future, whether in practical usage or in looking for a job.

In fact, survey shows that people who have succeeded in attaining university or college degrees were more accomplished in looking for a better paying job than those undereducated or uneducated ones. This fact alone underscores the importance of education, and more and more people are gaining educational awareness. Parents and guardians have been sending their little children to kindergarten and primary schools because they know the importance of giving their young ones the benefit of education. They send their young children to schools because they know that these institutions are the ideal place for learning, where young individuals gradually progress from knowing basic maths and reading to learning the complexities of specific fields and courses.

Educational awareness is not only apparent among parents and guardians but also among private and public sectors. Governments of different countries usually allot a good portion of their national budget to cover the costs of educating their young citizens. They also implement programs that would better the educational process. Legislative bodies of different government pass bills and laws that cover education. The private sector, meanwhile, allots a great part of their assets and resources to bridge the gaps in education and produce the brightest students.

The formal process of exacting knowledge and skills is so important that the educational awareness is steadily increasing. For their part, students should take their studies seriously, since only through education that they could gain a bright future.

Educational Awareness: Tool versus Cause

Indisputably, education’s level of integration in the society has percolated rapidly deeper than in the past. In effect, almost every societal or organizational dysfunction is fraught to come from the recesses of everyone’s basic foundation – the education. As such, education is strongly reinforced and suggesting otherwise would receive a collective sort of disappointed frowns or unabashed guffaws. What may be known next are the upsurge for action, characteristic of enthusiastic optimism, and a strengthened empathy for those education-deprived individuals. Naming such process and concept, this can be referred as educational awareness. 

It may be relatively easy to categorize educational awareness as a noble cause; but in reality, it may be shaped to serve other purposes. For instance, it may be a tool by which illiteracy is fought. As a tool, this concept calls to be an instrument for facilitating education through awareness. In more detail, awareness should ideally cover those opportunities by which are typically well-coveted such as good chances of finishing one’s education (i.e., availability and eligibility for scholarships), a promising career, and that sunny-sunshine future. This particular perspective implicates the huge influence the concept has on everyone’s education choices. 

Despite its tool function, educational awareness is best known as an image-enhancing cause. For instance, the media had endlessly spotlighted several celebrity causes of which ranges from feeding, medical support for particular diseases, for the old, young, or the sick, and for the deprived one. In retrospect, while other donors, be celebrity or not, provide financial support, others opt to give the time element in such endeavor. For example, an expert may find time to relate his or her experiences in the field, as well as, insights and helpful tips. This sort of donation is highly valued because it involves the passing of a priceless piece of information – experience.

Educational Awareness and Schools

In recent decades, more and more young people want to enter a university or college and study. In fact, if you conduct a survey regarding the educational background of people from different age brackets, you would find out that the older generation were not as educated in college as much as the younger generations. This is due to the fact that more and more people are becoming more awareness of the importance of education in their lives.

In simplest and technical sense, education is the formal process of imparting knowledge and skills as wells as values. Education has been institutionalized in schools like primary and secondary schools, as well as university and colleges. More and more schools are built to offer varied levels of education, a solid proof that people are developing educational awareness through the course of time.

Education as a process means that it is progressive. To many people, education is a process that develops a child into a mature individual who could take on the challenges and demands of the adult world. During a child’s primary school years, he is taught with the basics. The lessons get harder and more complicated as the education level goes higher. By the time the student reaches last year of secondary school, he already have possessed enough knowledge to live as a mature individual. The educational awareness of a person is at its peak during this period.

A student, however, have to develop specific skills and gain specific knowledge to do a certain work. As dictated by educational awareness, universities and colleges offer courses that would allow a student to gain specific knowledge and skills with regards to his chosen field.

Sadly though, that not all young people have access to education, even if they want to study a specific course.

Educational Awareness among Children and Teens into Sports and Entertainment

        Educational awareness is most associated with the illiterate and underprivileged children and youth. These persons do not have the resources to go to school and be educated. This is the first step towards their ignorance. The second is that because they are able to go to school, they do not have the right concept of what school is, moreover its importance.

        This is the reason why many able persons want to, and is working on, promoting educational awareness. One of them is Bobby Ray Phills, II. This person is a popular basketball player in the National Basketball Association in the US from 1991 to 2000. He played during the dominance of Michael Jordan and even guarded him. In their first encounter, he held Jordan to only 26 points compared to his career average of 30 points. He limited Jordan to only 11 points from the outside. Phills' NBA career was shortened to nine years because he died of a car accident in 2000. However, he left behind his vision and mission for educational awareness with a foundation which he founded in 1996.

          In that time, many less fortunate children and youth are led astray by poverty and helplessness. Many of them think or believe that they can make their lives better through criminal activities. Some of them even succumbed to the idea that they can no longer change their plight. A few were better thinking that sports or entertainment can help them. They are correct; however, they should be informed and taught that education is the best key and that they should put it above sports and entertainment.

        Phills, and many philanthropics and social workers knew that they should make the children and youth aware that sports and entertainment should be supplemented by education, that is if the former two are the path they choose. In other words, they should be trained to value education.