Silent Education Model – Silent School Model

• Main Author: Özcan Arslanoğlu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Uluslararası Eğitim Araştırmacıları Dergisi 2020-06-01
• Series: Uluslararası Eğitim Araştırmacıları Dergisi
• Subjects: sessiz eğitim modeli; sessiz okul modeli; sessiz okul i̇lkesi; silent education model; silent school model; silent school policy.
• Online Access: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ueader/issue/55302/693368?publisher=http-egitim-kilis-edu-tr-cv-durmu-c5-9e-burak-pdf

Education praxis have complicated structures depending on contexts of the countries, related to their scientific development, religion, culture, and historical experiences. Recent scientific developments have altered sociological realities, psychological interactions, and how people retrieve information. Having said that, this has happened primarily via internet by means of enhanced communication opportunities, and because of easily accessible information by search engines. On one hand, this situation seems like an opportunity for the development of societies to happen faster; on the other hand it distracts humans from their inner perspectives and qualified outer informations. It may also lessen the quality of interactions nearby. Putting unnecessary and less related information into people’s mind is another problem of this age. Mass amounts of information have produced messy information mixtures on internet. It can be put forward that people can no longer stay alone as they may wish with prevention from always accompanying technology, which at the end, prevents individuals to listen themselves and think deeply. In brief, humans confront distractions about their interactions, lots of unreliable information, and risk of losing inner journeys. This is where a new model of education and school is designed and proposed to overcome these conflicts. Silent Education/School Model is shaped by 6 features. They are (1) Literacy, Numeracy Skills, and Elocution, (2) Healthy Life Style, (3) Education of Emotions and Virtues, (4) Outer-Acknowledgement, (5) Inner- Acknowledgement, and finally, (6) Silent School Policy. Outer-acknowledgement and inner-acknowledgement are two philosophical approaches to knowledge that have been thought to compete throughout history. Quantum Physics and its findings seem to support leaning via inner-acknowledgement. Inner acknowledgement is presented here as a main feature of silent education model and silent school model besides outer-acknowledgement. With this study, it is suggested that two approaches can work together both as a combination or affixed to each other under a model of education starting from the childhood. By an establishment of such a model based on previously mentioned features, it is hoped that humans can respond the demanding expectations of forthcoming ages.