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.