Introduction
Eisner (2002, cited in Gunzenhauser, 2003, p. 52) states that the purpose and value of education begins with a question to the community: “What kind of educational culture do we want our children to experience?” The ideal school in this study involves a private international high school in an Asian country in which English is not the native language. The ideal classroom consists of students from 11th or 12th grade. The purpose for selecting these grades is to consider, supposedly, the Asian students’ anticipation to study in a Western country (for example, Great Britain or the United States).
Therefore, the paper reflects deductively from the ideal school’s general philosophy and, transcending top-down, to school’s values. Conversely,
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The ideal international school promotes a community of people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives. Each of these people has roots in the cultural traditions and intermingles evocatively for one goal – an educational transcultural and transnational agenda for students, who will, hopefully or eventually, traverse across the …show more content…
The three reasons for this are the following:
1. Studying humanity is valuable to increase self-knowledge. This refers to the importance of critical thinking to develop a cognitive awareness of society, whether local, national, or international.
2. Partisanship (such as commitment to a local culture, community, or group) can be countered with a spotlight on world citizenship. In other words, build an understanding of a global community working together versus allegiance to one group or community.
3. Recognizing what is fundamental for everyone, specifically, “their aspirations to justice and goodness and their capacities for reasoning in this connection.” The last reason refers to establishing a fair and respectful intuitive insight of others (Nussbaum, 2002, p.8, cited in Crosbie, 2014, p.