Research Question
How can we reduce the negative psychological impact of result-based education on current and former students?
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How can we disrupt the psychological impact of result-based education on current and former students?
what
My topic centers on the education system and the psychological impact it has on individuals. I’m interested in the fact that individuals within a society are required to form a balance of order and chaos, and education teaches individuals how to follow rules and to maintain order in a macroscopic sense. This either boosts idiosyncratic traits within individuals outside the education system or it suppresses it.
why
When an education system is result-oriented, it fuels a continuing belief in students (current and former), and we project it into whatever environment we enter next. From my knowledge, this belief is quite common globally, especially in Asian countries, and a lot of people are suffering mentally (and sometimes physically) from it. People would complain about it on scattered safe spaces on the Internet when they are outside the system and away from the rules physically.
Personally I have this belief as well and I’m still unlearning it.
how
Result-based education, or any system that labels an individual, is adding a fictional shadow to that individual. And when this system is large enough to contain enough people to form a collective story, it creates a collective belief that your fictional shadow created by the system is who you are.
I aim to create a similar fictional worldview (an alternate or parallel reality) and set that as a background for future interviews and interventions. This alternate reality is a safe space for stakeholders because with me as the creator of this fiction, I could make sure that people can enter and exit this world freely without getting immersed in it to the extent that they believe it as their reality. The worst they’ll receive is a trigger warning or a vaccine of what is actually happening in the real world. I also encourage skeptical comments about the worldbuilding itself because my own thoughts are subjective and aren’t open enough, feedback like this will be invaluable to this project.
what if
I’m hoping that people will be more skeptical/critical of the system they are in at the moment, that they’ll not only have the clarity of mind to question the system in their head, but also the courage to use the system to their own benefits.
In this project, I am not only the creator and researcher of this project, I am also one of the stakeholders because I am a former student of result-based education. I’m hoping that there will be more people(quantitatively) who obtains more agency in the education system and develop a more active than passive way of learning themselves.
reading list
Derren Brown: “Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine”
Derren Brown: “Tricks of the Mind”
George Orwell: “1984”
Aldous Huxley: “Brave New World”
Bryan Caplan: “The Case Against Education”
Michel Foucault: “Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la folie à l’âge Classique” (Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason)
Adam Curtis: “The Century of the Self”(a documentary)
PoorRolemodel (2023). What is an ARG? [online] ARGCREATOR. Available at: https://argcreator.com/what-is-an-arg/ [Accessed 2 May 2024].
Reflecting on what I wrote:
Am I still talking about education, or am I talking about something else?
Do I stick to education or do I explain this phenomenon from a perspective that is more abstract?