Re-Imagining Relevance in Education

Abstract

Educational relevance. If we had the ability to look into the brains of practicing teachers we’d see this notion rolling steadily through cells in the frontal lobe. Looking for relevance allows us to interest our students. It allows us to coerce them into learning something new or, at least, something the powers-that-be consider important for them to know. If we stopped brain-watching and instead listened into a typical seminar for pre-service teachers on curriculum and planning, we would also encounter this term.