HE L3 : BARRIERS TO EDUCATION

REVIEWER

Education

demands a healthy environment conducive to effective assimilation of knowledge and skills learned

Barriers to education

may exist to prevent or reduce students’ ability to avail of their right to quality education

Barriers to education

can take many forms. They can be physical, technological, systematic, financial, or attitudinal, among others

Student Factors

Includes physical, social, personal beliefs, and values

Institutional Factors

Includes physical facilities, philosophy, and support

Teacher Factors

Includes qualifications, preparations, values, and certifications

PHYSICAL DISABILITY

Students with physical disabilities encounter physical barriers to educational services like ramps, heavy doors, poor lighting, and even poor toilets

Negative Attitudes & Stereotypes

Negative attitudes among students and teachers to students present a huge challenge to learning. Stereotyping and labeling compound the issue

Poverty

Students lack the resources to sustain the educational cost of paying school fees and doing projects on top of daily allowances for food and transportation

Capabilities, Beliefs & Values

Genetics and culture affect to an extent curricular comprehension and retention. Fixed mindsets affect negatively while growth mindsets affect positively

Relevance of School

If facts and skills are not seen to connect to real life, the learning of students is hindered

Inadequate Facilities and Funding

Insufficient rooms, library, laboratories, and facilities to cater students for rich learning experiences

Philosophy, Vision, Mission of the School

Schools have their own values, beliefs and practices. Schools may or may not adhere to the standards of education or accreditation

Legal Framework

Free education, prohibition of pregnant students and early marriages, and unregistered births are bound by legalities in the school and the society

Issues of Safety & Security

Schools that are too remote, rampant cases of violence and bullying, inadequate hygiene and sanitation facilities, and lack of support group pose problems in the safety of the students

Accountability Movement

This is the general term for groups outside the school that pressure the schools to make decisions according to the movement’s expectations (i.e., strong sports program)

Qualifications & Values

Education is linked to t he ability, personality, traits, and values including the teachers’ outlook in life and in teaching

Knowledge, Skills, and Values

__***Knowledge***__- Intellectual capabilities to facilitate cognitive learning and stimulate student’s psychomotor process

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__***Skills-***__ manage students’ creative imagination and promotes psychomotor development

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__***Values***__***-*** promotes student ideals of achievement and scholastic mastery.

Knowledge

Intellectual capabilities to facilitate cognitive learning and stimulate student’s psychomotor process

Skills

manage students’ creative imagination and promotes psychomotor development

Values

promotes student ideals of achievement and scholastic mastery

Inadequate Professional Preparation

Alignment of health teacher to professional health teaching. “Anyone can teach health” is a misconception

Lack of Certification

Certifications from trainings will greatly help in the preparations. (Nursing Law, RA 9173)

Collaboration with Other Disciplines

The teacher sees education holistically thus using wisdom and expertise of experts in some specific fields to enrich learning. Students see the course not detached from other disciplines